פֶּחָם
pechâm · H6352 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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charcoal
A lightweight black carbon material made by heating wood in an environment devoid of air and used as fuel
ExamplesProverbs 26:21 Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, So is a contentious person to kindle strife.
Isaiah 44:12 The craftsman of iron shapes a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.
Isaiah 54:16 “Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals And produces a weapon for its work; And I have created the destroyer to inflict ruin.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָפַחto blow 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֶּחֶלburning coal 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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
- גֶּחֶל gechel · H1513 · burning coal
- Both words denote burning or hot coals, with overlapping core sense; they are distinct Hebrew words that could substitute for each other in many contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wood001002005017
- פֶּחָם denotes coals, burnt wood used as fuel.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6352. pecham מֶּחָם noun [masculine] coal (collective); absolute ׳פ, as inflammable, ׳פ…
מֶּחָם noun [masculine] coal (collective); absolute ׳פ, as inflammable, ׳פ לְגֶחָלִים Pro 26:21 (charcoal for embers, Toy); of glowing coal Isa 44:12, פ ׳אֵשׁ Isa 54:16; Psa 11:6 for אֵשׁ מַּחִ֑ים ᵑ0 read אֵשׁ מַּחַם (or מַּחֲמֵי) coals of fire (|| גָּפְרִית), so Ew and others
פחת (√ of following; compare Arabic cut off, VII. be perforated (of roof); Syriac Pa`el pierce, break through, pit, chasm; Late Hebrew מָּחַת dig, hollow out, also diminish).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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