495 occurrences

'Fire' in the Bible

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSacrifice, In OtSanctity Of LifePagan PracticesInfanticideThe Lord Drove Them Out

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionChild sacrificeProvoking GodConsultationsPagan PracticesCharacter Of WickedDivinationmagicwitches

and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

Verse ConceptsPagan GodsSacrifice, In OtChild sacrifice

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsCreativityStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stone

He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFireChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSacrifice, In OtSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfPagan PracticesInfanticideHuman SacrificesFortunetellingNecromancyOccultismTime PassingSorcerypsychics

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsChild sacrificeHuman SacrificesPolluting The Landdrums

He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

Verse ConceptsChamberlainsBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning IdolsPrivate Rooms

He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

Verse ConceptsPalacesDestruction Of HousesDestruction Of The TempleBurning JerusalemHouses Under Attack

They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.

Verse ConceptsBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning Things

David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

Verse ConceptsMediationAnswers By FireAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsFire From HeavenBurning SacrificesGod Answered

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

Verse ConceptsWorship, Acceptable AttitudesAnswers By FireThe First TempleDedicationCloud of gloryPrayingsmoking

All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying], "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever."

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfPraiseKneelingWorship, Elements OfWorship, Reasons For

Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeValleysInfanticide

He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsHuman SacrificesAncestral WorshipSorcerypsychics

They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambBanquets, Events CelebratedCaldrons

They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsBattering ramsPalacesWallsConflagrationsDestruction Of Jerusalem's Wall

They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallCity GatesBurning JerusalemSurvivors Of Israel

I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why shouldn't my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?"

Verse ConceptsGatesArchaeologyCitizens, Christian DutiesDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning Jerusalem

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureCity GatesNamed GatesBurning JerusalemInspectingDuring One Night

Then I said to them, "You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced."

Verse ConceptsWallsDistressDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning JerusalemEliminating ShameRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalPillarsObelisksGod Appearing In FireLight In The WorldDuring The DayGod Has GuidedNavigation

yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGuidance, Receiving God'sObelisksGod Appearing In FireLight In The WorldGod Not ForsakingDuring The DayGod Has Guided

While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

Verse ConceptsLightningLossSuffering, Causes OfWeather, God's Sovereignty OverConflagrationsActing AloneBurning PeopleWhile Still Speaking

For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

Verse ConceptsLiving In The LightThe Wicked Will Perish

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleThe Outer DarknessOuter Darkness

saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Verse ConceptsEarth, God SustainingFood Defined

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

Verse ConceptsHarvestThe DestroyerAdultery

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

Verse ConceptsReedsSmokeNostrilsWeedsmokingpotSmoke Used Poetically

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Verse ConceptsNosesSmokeNostrilsFire Emanating From Godsmoking

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

Verse ConceptsGod Appearing In FireGod Is LightThunder Showing God's Presence

Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

Verse ConceptsThunderHailGod's VoiceThunder Showing God's Presence

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesWicked Described AsBurning PeopleGod Will Be Angry

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

Verse ConceptsHeatMeditationInward FireOther References To The Heart

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthSpearsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsDisarmamentBreaking WeaponsDestroying ChariotsI Am GodGod Makes Peace

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

Verse ConceptsSilenceGod Appearing In FireThe Second Coming

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfBitingLionsSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristTeethSharpnessEnemies Surrounding

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialFootstoolsGenerosity, God'sFlowing WaterSevere AfflictionsSaved From FireAbundanceFloodsfulfillment

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Verse ConceptsSmokeWicked Described AsMeltingWaxDriven From God's PresenceThe Lord Will Drive Them OutThe Presence Of GodsmokinganniversarySmoke Used Poetically

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Them

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Verse ConceptsBurning PlantsHarming Treesfirefighters

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Verse ConceptsProlonged AfflictionsGod HidingBefore God Acts

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyBurning People

A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

Verse ConceptsFire Of EvilInfidelityadultry

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfThe Fact Of DeathPassionrelentless

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory, Revelation OfDivine ManifestationsSmokeGod Appearing In FireCloud of glorysmokingzion

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfWeaponsShoesHorrors Of WarWeapons For Fuel

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyHand Of GodShameStoringZealGod's HandBurning PeopleNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsShame Will Come

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

Verse ConceptsearthquakesSuffering, Causes OfThunderGod Dispensing WindFire Of JudgementHurricanesThunder Expressing God's Judgment

He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

Verse ConceptsPotterBreaking ContainersWeed

Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodLipsSmokeTheophanyFire Emanating From GodGod Has AngerGood Things From Far Away

Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfThunderWeather, As God's JudgmentArm Of GodFire Of God's AngerPaying Attention To GodLightning Used MetaphoricallyThunder Expressing God's Judgment

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Verse ConceptsPitsTheophanyBrimstonePreparation For BurialSulphurA Place Prepared

His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesBanners, Literal UseBanner, Figurative UseJerusalem, Significance OfPeople As Rockszion

You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

Verse ConceptsChaffStrawLight As ChaffFire Of Evil

The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

Verse ConceptsThorns

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathGuilt, Human Aspects OfHell, Punishment OfHell, Description OfPunishment, By GodSinnersUngodlinessGuilty FearTerror Of God

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stonestatues

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChastisementSensitivityInsensibilityBurning PeopleStrength In Battle

He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."

Verse ConceptsWarmingHalf Of Things

No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Uses OfBurning PeopleSaving Oneself

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinThe Ungodly Sufferingfate

"Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsBlacksmithsThose Who DestroyFurnacescraftsmanshipcredibility

as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

Verse ConceptsTrembling

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

Verse ConceptsTreasureArchaeologyBurning JerusalemOther Praising Of GodPraising God In Public Worship

who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

Verse ConceptsHypocrisy, Description OfNosesPrejudicePride, Examples OfSmokeHypocrites, Description OfFire Of EvilAll DayHolier Than ThouChanging YourselfsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChariots Of GodPunishment, By GodWheelsWhirlwindsGod RidingHeavenly ChariotsGod Appearing In FireFire Of God's AngerGod Angry With The NationsAutomobilesHurricanesThe Second Comingrebuking

For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgePunishment, By GodGod KillingFire Of JudgementGod KillsGod's Swordpork

"They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

Verse ConceptsCarcass, Figurative UseGod, Justice OfHell, As An ExperienceRebellion, Against GodRegretSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsFire Of HellKingdom Of Godworms

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsCircumcision, spiritualFire Of God's AngerTrue CircumcisionLake Of Fire

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, "Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersFire Of God's WordSpeaking The Word God GivesspeakingThe Power Of Wordspeople

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

Verse ConceptsUseless Labour

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringDoughQueensTablesFirewoodKneading DoughDifferent GodsFood For Other godsWorshipping Material ThingsServing Asherahgathering

They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfBalaams DonkeyFalse GodsChild sacrificeAbsence Of ThoughtShrines

Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualStormsColors, GreenOaksBurning PlantsBeauty Of ThingsOlive TreesGod Controls Storms

Bible Theasaurus

Ardour (3 instances)
Arouse (32 instances)
Attack (399 instances)
Blast (36 instances)
Discharge (34 instances)
Dismiss (25 instances)
Elicit (1 instance)
Excite (1 instance)
Fervor (6 instances)
Firing (3 instances)
Flame (74 instances)
Flaming (51 instances)
Ignite (11 instances)
Kindle (27 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
πρῶτον 
Proton 
first , at the first Trans , first of all ,
Usage: 40

πρότερον 
Proteron 
before Trans , first , former , before , at the first
Usage: 9

πρῶτος 
Protos 
Usage: 67

ἀνθρακιά 
Anthrakia 
fire of coals
Usage: 2

ἄνθραξ 
Anthrax 
coals of fire
Usage: 1

ἄνωθεν 
Anothen 
from above , top , again , from the first , from the beginning , not tr
Usage: 10

ἀπαρχή 
Aparche 
Usage: 8

ἀρχή 
Arche 
Usage: 42

βέβαιος 
Bebaios 
Usage: 9

γέεννα 
Geenna 
Usage: 1

δευτερόπρωτος 
Deuteroprotos 
Usage: 1

μετρητής 
metretes 
Usage: 1

προδίδωμι 
Prodidomi 
Usage: 1

προελπίζω 
Proelpizo 
Usage: 1

πρόκειμαι 
Prokeimai 
be set before , be first , be set forth
Usage: 5

προκηρύσσω 
Prokerusso 
Usage: 2

πρωτοτόκος 
Prototokos 
Usage: 9

πῦρ 
Pur 
Usage: 53

πυρά 
Pura 
Usage: 2

πύρινος 
Purinos 
of fire
Usage: 1

πυρόω 
Puroo 
burn , fiery , be on fire , try
Usage: 5

φλογίζω 
Phlogizo 
set on fire
Usage: 2

φῶς 
Phos 
Usage: 44