נוּר
nur (H5135)
fire
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# Analysis of נוּר (nur) — Fire The Hebrew word *nur* (H5135) denotes fire and appears seventeen times throughout the biblical text. As a concrete noun, it refers to the physical phenomenon of burning flame, maintaining a straightforward semantic field focused on this literal element. The modest frequency of occurrence—compared to more common Hebrew terms for fire—suggests this particular lexeme occupies a specialized or less frequent niche in biblical vocabulary, though the exact contexts of its usage would require examination of the individual passages to determine whether it carries any distinctive connotations or appears in particular literary genres or theological contexts. Without access to the specific biblical passages where *nur* appears, the analysis necessarily remains limited to what the lexical data confirms: this is a basic Hebrew noun denoting fire in its elemental sense. The distinction between this term and other Hebrew words for fire, if one exists, cannot be determined from the lexicon entry alone. The relatively low number of occurrences indicates it may have been less preferred than alternative expressions, or it may have been restricted to particular types of fire-related references or to specific periods of biblical composition.
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Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.”
He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.
A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.