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fire

Meaning of “fire”

Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

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First occurrence: Genesis 19:24

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James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · James 3:5 · retained source text

Euen so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold, how great a matter a litle fire kindleth.

1611 marginal noteOr, wood.

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
3 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · James 3:6 · retained source text

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquitie: so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.

James 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
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1611 witness · James 5:3 · retained source text

Your gold and siluer is cankered, and the rust of them shall bee a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh as it were fire: ye haue heaped treasure together for the last dayes.

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