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גַּחֶ֫לֶת
- Transliteration
- gechel
- Pronunciation
- geh'-khel
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 18
Glosses
coal, (burning) coal.
Lexicon definition
an ember
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Coal
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- H1513, H6352, H7529, H7815
- Hebrew
- גַּחֶ֫לֶת · gechel
Strong’s and original-language information
H1513
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פֶּחָם
- Transliteration
- pechâm
- Pronunciation
- peh-khawm'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
coal, coals.
Lexicon definition
a coal, whether charred or live
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
רֶצֶף
- Transliteration
- retseph
- Pronunciation
- reh'-tsef
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
coal.
Lexicon definition
a red-hot stone (for baking)
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
שְׁחוֹר
- Transliteration
- shᵉchôwr
- Pronunciation
- shekh-ore'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
coal.
Lexicon definition
dinginess, i.e. perhaps soot
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רִצְפָּה
- Transliteration
- retseph
- Pronunciation
- reh'-tsef
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
glowing stone, coal, coal.
Lexicon definition
a red-hot stone (for baking)
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
פֶּחָם
- Transliteration
- pechâm
- Pronunciation
- peh-khawm'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
coals.
Lexicon definition
a coal, whether charred or live
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
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Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Coal
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. Two different words are found in Hebrew to denote coal, both occurring in Prov. 26:21, "As coal [Heb. peham; i.e., "black coal"] is to burning coal [Heb. gehalim]." The latter of these words is used in Job 41:21; Prov. 6:28; Isa. 44:19. The words "live coal" in Isa. 6:6 are more correctly "glowing stone." In Lam. 4:8 the expression "blacker than a coal" is literally rendered in the margin of the Revised Version "darker than blackness." "Coals of fire" (2 Sam. 22:9, 13; Ps. 18:8, 12, 13, etc.) is an expression used metaphorically for lightnings proceeding from God. A false tongue is compared to "coals of juniper" (Ps. 120:4; James 3:6). "Heaping coals of fire on the head" symbolizes overcoming evil with good. The words of Paul (Rom. 12:20) are equivalent to saying, "By charity and kindness thou shalt soften down his enmity as surely as heaping coals on the fire fuses the metal in the crucible."
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Coal
Indexed occurrences: 1
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Strong's Concordance
Coals
Indexed occurrences: 23
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All Scripture references33 references
Leviticus 1
Numbers 1
2 Samuel 3
1 Kings 3
Job 2
Psalms 9
Proverbs 3
Isaiah 6
Ezekiel 3
Romans 1
James 1
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
COAL
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for COAL.
Indexed references: 3
Scripture references:
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Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Carbuncle
(Ex. 28:17; 39:10; Ezek. 28:13). Heb. barkath; LXX. smaragdos; Vulgate, smaragdus; Revised Version, marg., "emerald." The Hebrew word is from a root meaning "to glitter," "lighten," "flash." When held up to the sun, this gem shines like a burning coal, a dark-red glowing coal, and hence is called "carbunculus", i.e., a little coal. It was one of the jewels in the first row of the high priest's breastplate. It has been conjectured by some that the garnet is meant. In Isa. 54:12 the Hebrew word is 'ekdah, used in the prophetic description of the glory and beauty of the mansions above. Next to the diamond it is the hardest and most costly of all precious stones.
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Censer
The vessel in which incense was presented on "the golden altar" before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offering, and having carried it into the sanctuary, there threw upon the burning coals the sweet incense (Lev. 16:12, 13), which sent up a cloud of smoke, filling the apartment with fragrance. The censers in daily use were of brass (Num. 16:39), and were designated by a different Hebrew name, miktereth (2 Chr. 26:19; Ezek. 8:11): while those used on the day of Atonement were of gold, and were denoted by a word (mahtah) meaning "something to take fire with;" LXX. pureion = a fire-pan. Solomon prepared for the temple censers of pure gold (1 Kings 7:50; 2 Chr. 4:22). The angel in the Apocalypse is represented with a golden censer (Rev. 8:3, 5). Paul speaks of the golden censer as belonging to the tabernacle (Heb. 9:4). The Greek word thumiaterion, here rendered "censer," may more appropriately denote, as in the margin of Revised Version, "the altar of incense." Paul does not here say that the thumiaterion was in the holiest, for it was in the holy place, but that the holiest had it, i.e., that it belonged to the holiest (1 Kings 6:22). It was intimately connected with the high priest's service in the holiest. The manner in which the censer is to be used is described in Num. 4:14; Lev. 16:12.
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Coal
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. Two different words are found in Hebrew to denote coal, both occurring in Prov. 26:21, "As coal [Heb. peham; i.e., "black coal"] is to burning coal [Heb. gehalim]." The latter of these words is used in Job 41:21; Prov. 6:28; Isa. 44:19. The words "live coal" in Isa. 6:6 are more correctly "glowing stone." In Lam. 4:8 the expression "blacker than a coal" is literally rendered in the margin of the Revised Version "darker than blackness." "Coals of fire" (2 Sam. 22:9, 13; Ps. 18:8, 12, 13, etc.) is an expression used metaphorically for lightnings proceeding from God. A false tongue is compared to "coals of juniper" (Ps. 120:4; James 3:6). "Heaping coals of fire on the head" symbolizes overcoming evil with good. The words of Paul (Rom. 12:20) are equivalent to saying, "By charity and kindness thou shalt soften down his enmity as surely as heaping coals on the fire fuses the metal in the crucible."
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Emerald
Heb. nophek (Ex. 28:18; 39:11); i.e., the "glowing stone", probably the carbuncle, a precious stone in the breastplate of the high priest. It is mentioned (Rev. 21:19) as one of the foundations of the New Jerusalem. The name given to this stone in the New Testament Greek is smaragdos, which means "live coal."
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Firepan
(Ex. 27:3; 38:3), one of the vessels of the temple service (rendered "snuff-dish" Ex. 25:38; 37:23; and "censer" Lev. 10:1; 16:12). It was probably a metallic cinder-basin used for the purpose of carrying live coal for burning incense, and of carrying away the snuff in trimming the lamps.
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Rezeph
pavement; burning coal
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Rizpah
bed; extension; a coal
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