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גֶּחֶל

gechel · H1513 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. burning coal

    Carbonized material resulting from heating wood, used for cooking or warming

    Examples

    Leviticus 16:12 “He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil.

    2 Samuel 22:9 “Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth was devouring; Coals were kindled by it.

    2 Samuel 22:13 “From the brightness before Him Coals of fire were kindled.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

10 occurrences in 5 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
פֶּחָם pechâm · H6352 · charcoal
Both words denote burning or hot coals with an overlapping core sense, and can substitute in many contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
ἄνθραξ ánthrax · G440 · charcoal
Greek ἄνθραξ directly translates Hebrew גֶּחֶל as the standard LXX rendering for burning/live coal, maintaining the same core denotation of glowing ember or hot coal across both languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Wood001002005017
The noun names a live or burning coal, most often figuring wood or charcoal kindled to produce heat or fire in both literal and figurative descriptions of judgment.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1513. gechel or gacheleth גַּחֶ֫לֶת noun feminineExo 1:13 coal (compare Assyrian gu—lu,…
H1513. gechel
or gacheleth גַּחֶ֫לֶת noun feminineExo 1:13 coal (compare Assyrian gu—lu, a shining precious stone? COTGloss ZimBP 45) — absolute גַּחֶלֶת Isa 47:14; suffix גַּחַלְתִּי 2Sa 14:7; plural גֶּחָלִים Psa 18:9 Psa 18:6t.; construct גַּחֲלֵי Lev 16:12 Lev 16:5t. + Psa 18:14 (strike out ᵐ5 De Che); suffix גֶּחָלָיו Isa 44:19, גֶּחָלֶיהָ Eze 24:11; — coal, plural ׳ג אֵשׁ coals of fire Lev 16:12 (P), 2Sa 22:13 = Psa 18:13 [also Psa 18:14 compare above] Eze 10:2 (in vision); compare 2Sa 22:9 = Psa 18:9; Job 41:13, also Pro 6:28; Isa 44:19; in simile (of strife) Pro 26:21 (opposed to מֶּחָם black coal); Eze 1:13 אֵשׁ גַּחֲלֵי (of the living creatures); figurative of hope in posterity 2Sa 14:7, of divine judgement, ׳ג רתם coals of broom-plant Psa 120:4, compare Psa 140:11, also (negative) Isa 47:14; Eze 24:11; of kindness to enemy Pro 25:22.
גחם (? compare Arabic kindle, , burn).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Wood18 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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