76 occurrences in 13 translations

'Flames' in the Bible

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

Verse ConceptsPillar Of CloudLightningMusical Instruments, types ofTheophanyThunderGroups TremblingTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodThe Last TrumpetLion Of The Tribe Of JudahThunder Showing God's Presence

If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

Verse ConceptsCornAgriculture, RestrictionsFieldsAgriculture, TermsThornsWeedsArsonBurning Plants

"Tell Aaron's son Eleazar the priest to take out the censers out of the flames and scatter the coals far away, since they are holy.

Verse ConceptsHallowed

And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's PresenceBlackFire Emanating From God

He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.

Verse ConceptsSouthTens Of ThousandsThousands Of Angels Worship God

So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyBurning CitiesPlaces To This Day

When the burnt offering was engulfed in flames that sprang up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame that came from the altar. When Manoah and his wife observed this, they collapsed on their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsProstrationCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going Up

Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.

Verse ConceptsFireArsonbranding

But then the smoke began to rise from the city in a column. The army of Benjamin observed behind them that the whole city was going up in flames straight into the sky!

Verse ConceptsLooking Back

And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfGod's ArrowsScattering The Peoples

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames.

Verse ConceptsCitadelsHope, Results Of Its AbsencePalacesSuicideBurning People

He will not escape from the darkness;flames will wither his shoots,and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GoddrynessMouthsPeople WitheredScorchingThe Outer DarknessEscaping EvilOuter Darkness

When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

Verse ConceptsRainThunderGod Sending RainGod Controlling The Rain

After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfRumbling

Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

Verse ConceptsLightning

His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

Verse ConceptsDawnNosesSneezing

Flames blaze from his mouth; streams of sparking fire fly out.

His breath sets coals ablaze,and flames pour out of his mouth.

Verse Conceptsbreathingsmokingbreath

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsGod's ArrowsWeapons Of GodArrowsinstruments

There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

Verse ConceptsNosesSmokeNostrilsFire Emanating From Godsmoking

He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

Verse ConceptsGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrowscrusades

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

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

There he broke [the] flames of [the] bow, [the] shield and sword and battle. Selah

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfWeaponsBreaking WeaponsPsalm Interjections

And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames.

Verse ConceptsLightning

Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

Verse ConceptsBurning PlantsHarming Treesfirefighters

His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalLightningTheophanyTremblingLight In The World

Fire blazed throughout their assembly;flames consumed the wicked.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Set me as a seal on your heart,as a seal on your arm.For love is as strong as death;ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.Love’s flames are fiery flames—the fiercest of all.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfThe Fact Of DeathPassionrelentless

The strong one will become tinder,and his work a spark;both will burn together,with no one to quench the flames.

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleNot Extinguishing

Therefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Verse ConceptsChildbirthPunishment, Nature OfTravailLabour Pains

you will be visited by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies with thunder, an earthquake, and great noise, with a windstorm, a tempest, and flames from a devouring fire.

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

The sinners in Zion are afraid;trembling seizes the ungodly:“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”

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

so he drenched him with the heat that is his anger, the violence of war. It enveloped him in flames, but still he had no insight. It burned him up, but he didn't take it to heart."

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChastisementSensitivityInsensibilityBurning PeopleStrength In Battle

Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Uses OfBurning PeopleSaving Oneself

As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;

Verse ConceptsTrembling

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

Verse ConceptsEarth, God SustainingNatureRainStoringThunderWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindElements, Control OfVapourDivine Power Over NatureGod Sending RainGod Dispensing WindGod's VoiceGod's StorehousesProvidence, Of God In NatureGod Controlling The Rain

In the shadows of the walls of Heshbon those trying to escape will stand helpless. For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon. Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon. They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab, the skulls of those war-loving people.

Verse ConceptsForeheadsShadows

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

Verse ConceptsRainStoringThunderGod Dispensing WindGod's StorehousesGod Controlling The Rain

And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalLightningNorthTheophanyWhirlwindsCompassesOut Of The NorthFire Emanating From GodGod Is LightColorThe North Wind

And between the living beings it was like burning coals of fire, as if flames were going one after the other between the living beings; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went thunder-flames.

Verse ConceptsAppearances of

and thou hast said to the forest of the south: Hear a word of Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am kindling in thee a fire, And it hath devoured in thee every moist tree, and every dry tree, Not quenched is the glowing flames, And burnt by it have been all faces from south to north.

Verse ConceptsNorthSouthNorth And SouthHarming Trees

Since the king’s command was so urgent and the furnace extremely hot, the raging flames killed those men who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego up.

Verse ConceptsHeatUrgencyHot ThingsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

For even this [loathsome calf] is from Israel.A craftsman made it, so it is not God;Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces and go up in flames.

Verse ConceptsBroken Things

I call to You, Lord,for fire has consumedthe pastures of the wilderness,and flames have devouredall the trees of the countryside.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodBurning PlantsHarming TreesI Pray

They bound on the tops of the mountains.Their sound is like the sound of chariots,like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble,like a mighty army deployed for war.

Verse ConceptsNoiseLeapingWheelsAttacking With ChariotsCreatures JumpingBurning PlantsBangsRumbling

"I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahSticksNot Returning To GodDestruction Of CitiesSaved From Fire

The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonColors, ScarletAttacking With ChariotsSparklingRed ClothesSteelColor

The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

Verse ConceptsChariotsLightningRoadsStreetsCity SquaresAttacking With ChariotsSpeedSparklingUsing RoadsSteelAutomobilesLightning Used Metaphorically

Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.

Verse ConceptsPestilence

Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalPlantsRainSpringStormsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverGifts From God, TemporalAnswered PromisesShowersGod Sending RainspringtimeGod Controls Storms

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,Because the magnificent trees have been destroyed;Wail, O oaks of Bashan,For the inaccessible forest [on the steep mountainside] has come down.

Verse ConceptsFir TreesWailingFelling TreesDestruction Of PlantsOaksHarming Trees

"After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Verse Concepts40 To 50 YearsGod Appearing In FireGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.

Verse ConceptsForestsA Time To SpeakSuperiorityTongueEcological ConcernsSpeaking, EvilArrogance, Characterizes The WickedBig ThingsSmall ThingsFire Of EvilBurning PlantsBeware Of Your SpeechThe Tongue

And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;

Verse ConceptsLightningSpiritsSymbolsThunderSeven SpiritsSeven LightsFire Of The SpiritRumblingThe RainbowThunder Showing God's Presence

And the angel took the vessel; and he made it full of the fire of the altar, and sent it down on the earth: and there came thunders and voices and flames and a shaking of the earth.

Verse ConceptsearthquakesLightningSymbolsThunderCensersFire From HeavenAltars, In HeavenAstronomical SignsThunder Showing God's Presence

And there were flames and voices and thunders; and there was a great earth-shock so that never, from the time when men were on the earth, had there been so great an earth-shock, so full of power.

Verse ConceptsearthquakesLightningThunderCalamityUnique EventsRumblingBowl JudgmentsCatastrophic EventsThunder Expressing God's Judgment

Bible Theasaurus

Flames (76 instances)
Flaming (51 instances)
Flare (5 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

כּליל 
Kaliyl 
Usage: 15

לבּה 
Labbah 
Usage: 1

להב 
Lahab 
Usage: 12

להבת להבה 
Lehabah 
Usage: 19

להט 
Lahat 
set on fire , burn up , burn , kindle , flaming
Usage: 11

להט 
Lahat 
Usage: 2

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

משׂאת 
Mas'eth 
Usage: 16

שׂביב 
S@biyb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

שׁלהבת 
Shalhebeth 
Usage: 3

φλόξ 
Phlox 
Usage: 5

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