Smoke may accompany the narrated covenant, Sinai's descent and Isaiah's temple vision, while elsewhere it pictures distress, an irritant or an announced sign. Genesis places a smoking firepot within the covenant account.
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Smoke may accompany the narrated covenant, Sinai's descent and Isaiah's temple vision, while elsewhere it pictures distress, an irritant or an announced sign. Genesis places a smoking firepot within the covenant account.
The BSB source-word alignment has 25 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include of smoke (6), like smoke (4), smoke (4), a cloud of smoke (1), a smoking (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 15:17. Its strongest book concentrations include Isaiah (7), Psalms (4), Exodus (2), Joshua (2).
Smoke may accompany the narrated covenant, Sinai's descent and Isaiah's temple vision, while elsewhere it pictures distress, an irritant or an announced sign. Genesis places a smoking firepot within the covenant account. Exodus attributes Sinai's smoke to the Lord descending in fire. Isaiah sees the temple filled with smoke during his vision. Proverbs compares a sluggard's effect on a sender to smoke in the eyes.
Psalm 102 describes a distressed speaker's days vanishing like smoke, and Joel includes columns of smoke among announced wonders. The noun does not make every smoke plume divine presence or identify every environmental event as fulfillment of a prophecy. Read who speaks and what the unit says happened. A congregation can teach the stated encounter or hear the lament without imitating hazardous smoke, dismissing practical dangers or treating distress as evidence of divine rejection.
Narrated encounters, a proverb's irritation, a lament's vanishing days and Joel's announced wonders give smoke distinct roles. A visible smoke plume cannot interpret itself or authorize a ritual imitation.
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
The smoking firepot and flaming torch pass between the pieces within the narrated covenant account.
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the Lord had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
The narrator explains Sinai's smoke through the Lord descending in fire, with trembling mountain and furnace comparison.
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
The thresholds shake and the temple fills with smoke within Isaiah's vision and prophetic commission.
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
Smoke in the eyes compares the sluggard's effect on senders, alongside vinegar irritating the teeth.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
The distressed praying speaker compares vanishing days to smoke while describing pain and seeking a hearing.
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Columns of smoke accompany blood and fire among the wonders announced in the heavens and on earth.
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Hebrew word. Smoke as visible, rising manifestation—of fire's presence, divine anger's intensity, or judgment's presence
Smoke as visible, rising manifestation—of fire's presence, divine anger's intensity, or judgment's presence
smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger) BDB: smoke Usage: smoke(-ing).
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עָשָׁן is built from this root:
The imagery reinforces the unpleasant consequences of laziness.Proverbs 10:26
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Smoke receives its significance from the unit rather than supplying an explanation on its own. Genesis records a smoking firepot and torch within the covenant account. Exodus explicitly explains Sinai's smoke by the Lord's descent in fire, and Isaiah places a smoke-filled temple within his vision and commission. Proverbs makes a different comparison: smoke's irritation explains the sluggard's effect on a sender.
Psalm 102 uses vanishing smoke in a prayer marked by pain and isolation, which later addresses the Lord's enduring reign. Joel announces wonders that Peter explicitly cites in Acts. Teaching should follow each stated relation rather than equate every plume with a holy encounter or prophetic timetable. A congregation can acknowledge a sufferer's felt brevity and loneliness while offering care.
It must not create hazardous smoke to reproduce a narrative, ignore environmental danger or use a lament image as a verdict that a person is spiritually abandoned.
Ps.102.3
Smoke is a noun whose literal or comparative role follows its construction and setting. Twenty-five direct BSB tokens in twenty-four verses remain separate from canonical twenty-five; artifact transliteration is preserved and neither smoke nor an image automatically establishes divine agency in a present event.
Acts 2:14-41 explicitly quotes Joel's announced blood, fire and vapor of smoke within Peter's explanation and proclamation of Jesus, resurrection, repentance and the gift of the Spirit. Follow that stated use without making every modern smoke event an independently identified fulfillment or claiming a ritual can reproduce the narrative.