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And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
Read in context →Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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gechel · geh'-khel
an ember
Strong's KJV usage: (burning) coal.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 14:7Strong's last: Isaiah 47:14
Open full H1513 profile →ritspâh · rits-paw'
a hot stone; also a tessellated pavement
Strong's KJV usage: live coal, pavement.
Strong's first: Isaiah 6:6Strong's last: Isaiah 6:6
Open full H7531 profile →shᵉchôwr · shekh-ore'
dinginess, i.e. perhaps soot
Strong's KJV usage: coal.
Strong's first: Lamentations 4:8Strong's last: Lamentations 4:8
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
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COAL, noun
1. A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred. When burning or ignited, it is called a live coal or burning coal or coal of fire. When the fire is extinct, it is called charcoal.
2. In the language of chimists, any substance containing oil, which has been exposed to a fire in a close vessel, so that its volatile matter is expelled, and it can sustain a red heat without further decomposition.
3. In mineralogy, a solid, opake, inflammable substance, found in the earth, and by way of distinction called fossil coal It is divided by recent mineralogists into three species, anthracite or glance coal black or bituminous coal and brown coal or lignite; under which are included many varieties, such as cannel coal bovey coal jet, etc.
COAL, verb transitive
1. To burn to coal or charcoal; to char.
2. To mark or delineate with charcoal.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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