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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.

Micah 1:7
H784

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

Nahum 1:6
H784

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Nahum 3:13
H784

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

Nahum 3:15
H784

There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

Habakkuk 2:13
H784

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

Zephaniah 1:18
H784

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 3:8
H784

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zechariah 2:5
H784

For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Zechariah 3:2
H784

And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Zechariah 9:4
H784

Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

Zechariah 11:1
H784

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Zechariah 12:6
H784

In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:6
H784

In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 13:9
H784

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Malachi 1:10
no direct Strong's tag

Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Malachi 3:2
H784

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

Matthew 3:10
G4442

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 3:11
G4442

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Matthew 3:12
G4442

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 5:22
G4442

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Matthew 7:19
G4442

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 13:40
G4442

As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

Matthew 13:42
G4442

And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:50
G4442

And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 17:15
G4442

Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.

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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