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Gematria of Fire

5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “fire” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 401 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
5
Occurrences
401
Distinct values
5

The 5 Hebrew words rendered “fire”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

אֵשׁʼêsh×376 in the TanakhH784

fire (literally or figuratively)

Standard 301 →Gadol 301Katan 4Siduri (ordinal) 22Atbash 402Perati 90,001Milui 471

First appearance ·Genesis 15:17בראשית טו:יזאֵשׁ

See all 154 occurrences of the spelling אש →

נוּרnûwr×17 in the TanakhH5135

fire

Standard 256 →Gadol 256Katan 13Siduri (ordinal) 40Atbash 92Perati 42,536Milui 629

First appearance ·Daniel 3:6דניאל ג:ונוּרָא

See all 4 occurrences of the spelling נור →

אוּרʼûwr×6 in the TanakhH217

flame; hence (in the plural) the East (as being the region of light)

Standard 207 →Gadol 207Katan 9Siduri (ordinal) 27Atbash 483Perati 40,037Milui 634

First appearance ·Isaiah 24:15ישעיהו כד:טובָּאֻרִים

See all 57 occurrences of the spelling אור →

אֶשָּׁהʼeshshâh×1 in the TanakhH800

fire

Standard 306 →Gadol 306Katan 9Siduri (ordinal) 27Atbash 492Perati 90,026Milui 477

First appearance ·Jeremiah 6:29ירמיהו ו:כטמאשתם

See all 192 occurrences of the spelling אשה →

בְּעֵרָהbᵉʻêrâh×1 in the TanakhH1200

a burning

Standard 277 →Gadol 277Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 43Atbash 400Perati 44,929Milui 1,058

First appearance ·Exodus 22:5שמות כב:ההַבְּעֵרָֽה

See all 6 occurrences of the spelling בערה →

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Quick answers

What is the gematria of fire?

The Tanakh renders “fire” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: אש = 301, נור = 256, אור = 207, and 2 more.

How do you say fire in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “fire”; the most frequent are אש (ʼêsh), 376 times; נור (nûwr), 17 times; אור (ʼûwr), 6 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.