Words the Bible translates as fire
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- purπῦρfire: the burning flame, with all its power to warm, consume, purify, and destroy
- eshאֵשׁfire: burning flame and its heat and light, whether an ordinary blaze or the fire that marks God's presence, worship, or judgment.
- phōsφῶςlight: visible brightness, or a thing that gives it (the sun, daylight, a fire, a lamp, a blaze of glory)
+1 more meaning
- light as God's saving self-disclosure: the rescue, truth, and life he brings into a dark world, and the realm of those who live in it
- nurנוּרfire: a burning blaze of flame
- puraπυράfirenot studied yet
- serephahשְׂרֵפָהa burning: fire at work on something, whether the blaze that has ruined it or a fire lit on purpose to do a job
- eshאֶשָּׁאfirenot studied yet
- be'erahבְּעֵרָהfirenot studied yet
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