Leviticus 16:12
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
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Coals
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Romans 12:20
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
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גֶּחֶל
gechel · geh'-khel
15 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
an ember
Strong's KJV usage: (burning) coal.
Strong's first: Leviticus 16:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:11
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pechâm · peh-khawm'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a coal, whether charred or live
Strong's KJV usage: coals.
Strong's first: Proverbs 26:21Strong's last: Isaiah 54:16
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resheph · reh'-shef
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a live coal; by analogy lightning; figuratively, an arrow, (as flashing through the air); specifically, fever
Strong's KJV usage: arrow, (burning) coal, burning heat, spark, hot thunderbolt.
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Strong's first: Song of Solomon 8:6Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:5
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anthrakiá · anth-rak-ee-ah'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a bed of burning coals
Strong's KJV usage: :--fire of coals.
Strong's first: John 18:18Strong's last: John 21:9
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ánthrax · anth'-rax
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a live coal
Strong's KJV usage: :--coal of fire.
Strong's first: Romans 12:20Strong's last: Romans 12:20
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retseph · reh'-tsef
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a red-hot stone (for baking)
Strong's KJV usage: coal.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 19:6Strong's last: 1 Kings 19:6
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Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
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coal
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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