Gematria of Flame
8 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “flame” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 69 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
- 8
- Occurrences
- 69
- Distinct values
- 7
The 8 Hebrew words rendered “flame”
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.
{a flash; figuratively, a sharply polished blade or point of aweapon}
First appearance ·Numbers 21:28במדבר כא:כחלֶהָבָה
properly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figuratively, an utterance; concretely, a beacon (as raised); a present (as taken), mess, or tribute; figuratively, a reproach (as a burden)
First appearance ·Genesis 43:34בראשית מג:לדמַשְׂאֹת
complete; as noun, the whole (specifically, a sacrifice entirely consumed); as adverb, fully
First appearance ·Exodus 28:31שמות כח:לאכְּלִיל
a flash; figuratively, a sharply polished blade or point of aweapon
First appearance ·Judges 3:22שופטים ג:כבהַלַּהַב
a flare of fire
First appearance ·Ezekiel 21:3יחזקאל כא:גשַׁלְהֶבֶת
{flame (as split into tongues)}
First appearance ·Daniel 3:22דניאל ג:כבשְׁבִיבָא
{fire (literally or figuratively)}
First appearance ·Daniel 7:11דניאל ז:יאאֶשָּֽׁא
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of flame?
The Tanakh renders “flame” with 8 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: להבה = 42, משאת = 741, כליל = 90, and 5 more.
How do you say flame in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 8 Hebrew words for “flame”; the most frequent are להבה (lehâbâh), 19 times; משאת (masʼêth), 16 times; כליל (kâlîyl), 15 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.