Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
coal
Usage: coal, burning coal, coals of fire, hot coals
Gechel means “ember” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1513 — eipos (“if by any means”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1513 גֶּחֶל גַּחֶלֶת (gechel) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gechel (geh'-khel) (or (feminine) gacheleth {gah-kheh'-leth}) n-f. 1. an ember [from an unused root meaning to glow or kindle] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include coals, burning, burned, burn, and coal. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gechel (geh'-khel) (or (feminine) gacheleth {gah-kheh'-leth}) n-f. 1. an ember [from an unused root meaning to glow or kindle] KJV: (burning) coal.
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coal
Usage: coal, burning coal, coals of fire, hot coals
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gechel, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1513.
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1513, grouped by book.
Gechel (Strong's H1513) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "ember". gechel (geh'-khel) (or (feminine) gacheleth {gah-kheh'-leth}) n-f. 1. an ember [from an unused root meaning to glow or kindle]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H1513 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1513 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as coals, burning, burned, burn, coal, and kindle. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.