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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Fire

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

549exact KJV occurrences 466Old Testament 83New Testament 47books containing the word 15mapped Strong's IDs 537occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where fire appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 33 verses Exodus 2422 verses Leviticus 7469 verses Numbers 3735 verses Deuteronomy 3028 verses Joshua 99 verses Judges 1514 verses 1 Samuel 44 verses 2 Samuel 65 verses 1 Kings 107 verses 2 Kings 1714 verses 1 Chronicles 22 verses 2 Chronicles 66 verses Nehemiah 66 verses Job 88 verses Psalms 2928 verses Proverbs 66 verses Song of Solomon 11 verses Isaiah 3833 verses Jeremiah 4240 verses Lamentations 44 verses Ezekiel 5343 verses Daniel 87 verses Hosea 22 verses Joel 55 verses Amos 99 verses Obadiah 11 verses Micah 22 verses Nahum 33 verses Habakkuk 11 verses Zephaniah 22 verses Zechariah 76 verses Malachi 22 verses Matthew 1212 verses Mark 99 verses Luke 88 verses John 33 verses Acts 66 verses Romans 11 verses 1 Corinthians 32 verses 2 Thessalonians 11 verses Hebrews 44 verses James 53 verses 1 Peter 11 verses 2 Peter 22 verses Jude 22 verses Revelation 2625 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH217
אוּר

ʼûwr · oor

4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

Strong's KJV usage: fire, light. See also 224.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Isaiah 31:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 5:2

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GreekG4443
πυρά

pyrá · poo-rah'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

a fire (concretely)

Strong's KJV usage: :--fire.

Strong's first: Acts 28:2Strong's last: Acts 28:3

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GreekG5394
φλογίζω

phlogízō · flog-id'-zo

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to cause a blaze, i.e. ignite (figuratively, to inflame with passion)

Strong's KJV usage: :--set on fire.

Strong's first: James 3:6Strong's last: James 3:6

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GreekG4448
πυρόω

pyróō · poo-ro'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

to kindle, i.e. (passively) to be ignited, glow (literally), be refined (by implication), or (figuratively) to be inflamed (with anger, grief, lust)

Strong's KJV usage: :--burn, fiery, be on fire, try.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Peter 3:12Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:12

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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549 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Psalms 105:39
H784

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

Psalms 106:18
H784

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Psalms 118:12
H784

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Psalms 140:10
H784

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Psalms 148:8
H784

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

Proverbs 6:27
H784

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 16:27
H784

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Proverbs 25:22
H1513

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Proverbs 26:20
H784

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Proverbs 26:21
H784

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Proverbs 30:16
H784

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Song of Solomon 8:6
H784

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Isaiah 1:7
H784

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 4:5
H784

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Isaiah 5:24
H784

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:5
H784

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

Isaiah 9:18
H784

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19
H784

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Isaiah 10:16
H784

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

Isaiah 10:17
H784

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isaiah 26:11
H784

LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

Isaiah 27:11
H215

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Isaiah 29:6
H784

Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:14
H784

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Isaiah 30:27
H784

Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

fire

FIRE, noun [The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated; and if this is the sense of fire in coincides with Latin furo. It may be from shining or consuming.]

1. Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body; caloric; the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions; one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr. Hare's calorimotor.

In the popular acceptation of the word, fire is the effect of combustion. The combustible body ignited or heated to redness we call fire; and when ascending in a stream or body, we call it flame. A piece of charcoal in combustion, is of a red color and very hot. In this state it is said to be on fire or to contain fire When combustion ceases, it loses its redness and extreme heat, and we say, the fire is extinct.

2. The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place. We kindle a fire in the morning, and at night we rake up the fire Anthracite will maintain fire during the night.

3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration. Newburyport and Savannah have suffered immense losses by fire The great fire in Boston in 1711 consumed a large part of the town.

4. Light; luster; splendor.

Stars, hide your fires!

5. Torture by burning.

6. The instrument of punishment; or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.

Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Isaiah 33:11.

7. That which inflames or irritates the passions.

What fire is in my ears?

8. Ardor of temper; violence of passion.

He had fire in his temper.

9. Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.

And warm the critic with a poet's fire

10. The passion of love; ardent affection.

The God of love retires; dim are his torches, and extinct his fires.

11. Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.

12. Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.

13. Trouble; affliction.

When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt. Isaiah 43:2.

To set on fire to kindle; to inflame; to excite violent action.

St. Anthony's fire a disease marked by an eruption on the skin, or a diffused inflammation, with fever; the Erysipelas.

Wild fire an artificial or factitious fire which burns even under water. it is made by a composition of sulphur, naphtha, pitch, gum and bitumen. It is called also Greek fire

FIRE, verb transitive

1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.

2. To inflame; to irritate the passions; as, to fire with anger or revenge.

3. To animate; to give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.

4. To drive by fire [Little used.]

5. To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon.

6. To cauterize; a term in farriery.

FIRE, verb intransitive

1. To take fire; to be kindled.

2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

3. To discharge artillery or firearms. They fired on the town.

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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