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The Bible provides several references to different types of fuel, reflecting the practices and resources available in ancient Israel and surrounding regions.<br><br><b>Types of Fuel</b><br><br>1. <b>Wood</b>: Wood was the most common form of fuel in biblical times. It was used for cooking, heating, and sacrificial offerings. The scarcity of wood in certain regions made it a valuable commodity. In <a href="/genesis/22-3.htm">Genesis 22:3</a>, Abraham uses wood for the burnt offering of Isaac: "So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and set out for the place God had designated."<br><br>2. <b>Charcoal</b>: Charcoal, made by burning wood in a low-oxygen environment, was used for its higher heat output and longer burning time compared to raw wood. While the Bible does not explicitly mention charcoal, its use can be inferred from practices such as metalworking, which required intense heat.<br><br>3. <b>Dried Animal Dung</b>: In areas where wood was scarce, dried animal dung served as an alternative fuel source. <a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Ezekiel 4:12-15</a> describes a symbolic act where Ezekiel is instructed to bake bread using human excrement as fuel, but God allows him to use cow dung instead, highlighting its use as a common fuel.<br><br>4. <b>Oil</b>: Olive oil was used in lamps for lighting, as seen in the parable of the ten virgins in <a href="/matthew/25.htm">Matthew 25:1-13</a>. The lamps required oil to keep burning, symbolizing preparedness and vigilance.<br><br><b>Symbolic Uses of Fuel</b><br><br>Fuel in the Bible often carries symbolic meanings, particularly in the context of divine judgment and purification. For example, fire, fueled by wood or other materials, is frequently associated with God's presence and judgment. In <a href="/isaiah/33-14.htm">Isaiah 33:14</a>, the sinners in Zion are terrified, asking, "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting flames?" This imagery underscores the purifying and consuming nature of God's holiness.<br><br><b>Cultural and Economic Aspects</b><br><br>The availability and use of fuel had significant cultural and economic implications in biblical times. The gathering and trading of wood and other fuels were important activities, influencing daily life and commerce. The scarcity of fuel in certain regions could lead to economic hardship and social tension, as seen in the account of the widow of Zarephath in <a href="/1_kings/17-10.htm">1 Kings 17:10-16</a>, who was gathering sticks to prepare a final meal during a time of drought.<br><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>Fuel, in its various forms, played a crucial role in the daily and religious life of biblical societies. Its practical uses and symbolic meanings provide insight into the cultural, economic, and spiritual dimensions of the ancient world as depicted in the Scriptures.<a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for fuel, such as the withered stalks of herbs (<a href="/matthew/6-30.htm">Matthew 6:30</a>), thorns (<a href="/psalms/58-9.htm">Psalm 58:9</a>; <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:6</a>), animal excrements (<a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Ezek. 4:12</a>-15; <a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">15:4</a>, 6; <a href="/ezekiel/21-32.htm">21:32</a>). Wood or charcoal is much used still in all the towns of Syria and Egypt. It is largely brought from the region of Hebron to Jerusalem. (see <a href="../c/coal.htm">COAL</a>.) <a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.<p>3. (<I>v. t.</I>) To feed with fuel.<p>4. (<I>v. t.</I>) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">FUEL</span><p>fu'-el ('okhlah, or ma'akholeth, "food"): Is mentioned specifically only in the Old Testament, in <a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm">Isaiah 9:5, 19</a> <a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4, 6</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/21-32.htm">Ezekiel 21:32</a>. Its general, literal meaning in these connections is "food for fire," and might include any sort of combustible material. The common forms of fuel were wood of various sorts (even including thorns, <a href="/psalms/58-9.htm">Psalm 58:9</a>; <a href="/psalms/118-12.htm">Psalm 118:12</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:6</a>), and dried stalks of flowers or grass (<a href="/matthew/6-30.htm">Matthew 6:30</a>), charred wood as charcoal (<a href="/leviticus/16-12.htm">Leviticus 16:12</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-19.htm">Isaiah 44:19</a>, and frequently), and dried dung (<a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Ezekiel 4:12, 15</a>). There is no certain indication that our coal was known to the Hebrews as fuel, and their houses, being without chimneys, were not constructed for the extensive use of fuel for warmth.<br><br>Leonard W. Doolan<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/5208.htm"><span class="l">5208. hule -- wood, timber, forest</span></a> <br><b>...</b> wood, timber, forest. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hule Phonetic<br> Spelling: (hoo-lay') Short Definition: wood, <b>fuel</b> Definition: wood, <b>fuel</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5208.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3586.htm"><span class="l">3586. xulon -- wood</span></a> <br><b>...</b> From another form of the base of xestes; timber (as <b>fuel</b> or material); by implication,<br> a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance -- staff <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3586.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/4443.htm"><span class="l">4443. pura -- a fire</span></a> <br><b>...</b> a fire. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pura Phonetic Spelling:<br> (poo-rah') Short Definition: a fire Definition: a fire, pile of burning <b>fuel</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4443.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/3980.htm"><span class="l">3980. maakoleth -- <b>fuel</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> <b>fuel</b>. Transliteration: maakoleth Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ak-o'-leth) Short Definition:<br> <b>fuel</b>. Word Origin from akal Definition <b>fuel</b> NASB Word Usage <b>fuel</b> (2). <b>fuel</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3980.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/402.htm"><span class="l">402. oklah -- food, eating</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin fem. of okel Definition food, eating NASB Word Usage eat (1),<br> food (13), <b>fuel</b> (3). consume, devour, eat, food, meat. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/402.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4168.htm"><span class="l">4168. moqed -- a burning mass</span></a><br><b>...</b> burning, hearth. From yaqad; a fire or <b>fuel</b>; abstractly, a conflagration -- burning,<br> hearth. see HEBREW yaqad. 4167, 4168. moqed. 4169 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4168.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4169.htm"><span class="l">4169. moqedah -- hearth</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin fem. of moqed Definition hearth NASB Word Usage hearth (1). burning.<br> Feminine of mowqed; <b>fuel</b> -- burning. see HEBREW mowqed. 4168, 4169. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4169.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4071.htm"><span class="l">4071. medurah -- a pile (of wood)</span></a><br><b>...</b> pile for fire. Or mdurah {med-oo-raw'}; from duwr in the sense of accumulation;<br> a pile of <b>fuel</b> -- pile (for fire). see HEBREW duwr. 4070, 4071. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4071.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_fire_of_hell_2.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Fire of Hell is of the Same Species as Ours?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> xv): "Bodily fire needs bodily <b>fuel</b> in order to become fire; neither can it<br> be except by being kindled, nor live unless it be renewed. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the fire of hell 2.htm</font><p><a href="/library/benincasa/letters_of_catherine_benincasa/to_brother_raimondo_of_capua_3.htm"><span class="l">To Brother Raimondo of Capua of the Order of the Preachers</span></a> <br><b>...</b> So I wish, because there is mighty need, that you should never cease from throwing<br> <b>fuel</b> on the fire of holy desire"the <b>fuel</b> of the knowledge of yourselves. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to brother raimondo of capua 3.htm</font><p><a href="/library/alexander/of_the_manichaeans/chapter_xxvi_the_much-talked-of_fire_of.htm"><span class="l">The Much-Talked-Of Fire of the Manich??ans; that Fire Matter <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> And what substance of fire can be conceived without <b>fuel</b>, and how can what is moist<br> serve as <b>fuel</b> to it, unless what is rather physiologically said about this <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../alexander/of the manichaeans/chapter xxvi the much-talked-of fire of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/wells/bible_stories_and_religious_classics/the_burning_babe.htm"><span class="l">The Burning Babe</span></a> <br><b>...</b> but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or<br> feel my fire but I! My faultless breast the furnace is, the <b>fuel</b> wounding thorns <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the burning babe.htm</font><p><a href="/library/gordon/quiet_talks_on_service/god_still_sifting.htm"><span class="l">God Still Sifting.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Then there's the hard-coal enthusiasm that will burn steadily and faithfully by<br> the hour. Yet no kind, mark you, will run long without fresh <b>fuel</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/god still sifting.htm</font><p><a href="/library/arminius/the_works_of_james_arminius_vol_2/our_opinion_is_supported_by.htm"><span class="l">Our Opinion is Supported by Several Writers of the Middle Ages</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Evil is present with me with my reason; it is near to my inward man. I<br> see another law the <b>fuel</b> or flame, which reigns. Warring <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/our opinion is supported by.htm</font><p><a href="/library/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/94_as_the_world_serves.htm"><span class="l">As the World Serves You by Shewing the Greatness of God's Love to <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> As the world serves you by shewing the greatness of God's love to you, so doth<br> it serve you as <b>fuel</b> to foment and increase your praises. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/94 as the world serves.htm</font><p><a href="/library/palgrave/the_treasury_of_sacred_song/x_the_burning_babe.htm"><span class="l">The Burning Babe</span></a> <br><b>...</b> I! My faultless breast the furnace is, the <b>fuel</b> wounding thorns,. <b>...</b> scorns;<br> The <b>fuel</b> Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/x the burning babe.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/dying_fires.htm"><span class="l">Dying Fires</span></a> <br><b>...</b> They huddle round its dying embers for a little warmth and company, and they hope<br> it will scare wolf and jackal, but their <b>fuel</b> is all burned, and they have to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/dying fires.htm</font><p><a href="/library/augustine/city_of_god/chapter_4_examples_from_nature_proving.htm"><span class="l">Examples from Nature Proving that Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> burns, though itself bright; and which, though of the most beautiful colors, discolors<br> almost all it touches and feeds upon, and turns blazing <b>fuel</b> into grimy <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 4 examples from nature proving.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/f/fuel.htm"><span class="l"><b>Fuel</b> (13 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for <b>fuel</b>, such as the withered<br> stalks of herbs (Matthew 6:30), thorns (Psalm 58:9; Ecclesiastes 7:6), animal <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/fuel.htm - 12k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dung.htm"><span class="l">Dung (27 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (2.) Used as <b>fuel</b>, a substitute for firewood, which was with difficulty procured<br> in Syria, Arabia, and Egypt (Ezek. <b>...</b> Dung was also used as a <b>fuel</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dung.htm - 20k</font><p><a href="/topical/g/gate.htm"><span class="l">Gate (248 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> and Isaiah 25:10. Dung was also used as a <b>fuel</b>. Ezekiel 4:12, 15 will be<br> understood when it is known that the dung of animals is <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/g/gate.htm - 63k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/lime.htm"><span class="l">Lime (4 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> The whole interior is filled with carefully packed fragments of limestone, and large<br> piles of thorny-burner and other shrubs to serve as <b>fuel</b> are gathered <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/lime.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/bread.htm"><span class="l">Bread (433 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> This bowl is placed inverted upon small stones and then heated with a <b>fuel</b> distinctly<br> oriental, consisting of dried dung heaped over and around it. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/bread.htm - 58k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/firing.htm"><span class="l">Firing (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (n.) The act of discharging firearms. 2. (n.) The mode of introducing <b>fuel</b><br> into the furnace and working it. <b>...</b> 5. (n.) <b>Fuel</b>; firewood or coal. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/firing.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/coal.htm"><span class="l">Coal (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common <b>fuel</b> was dried dung of<br> animals and wood charcoal. Two different words are found in <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/coal.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/fire.htm"><span class="l">Fire (602 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2. (n.) <b>Fuel</b> in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.<br> 3. (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/fire.htm - 78k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/fugitive.htm"><span class="l">Fugitive (12 Occurrences)</span></a><br><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/fugitive.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/q/quartermaster.htm"><span class="l">Quartermaster (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing,<br><b>fuel</b>, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/q/quartermaster.htm - 7k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-willpower.html">What does the Bible say about willpower? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-nation.html">Is the United States a Christian nation? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-health.html">What does the Bible say about health? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/fuel.htm">Fuel: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Fuel (13 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm">Isaiah 9:5</a></span><br />For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, <span class="boldtext">fuel</span> for the fire.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm">Isaiah 9:19</a></span><br />Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the <span class="boldtext">fuel</span> for the fire. No one spares his brother.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm">Isaiah 40:16</a></span><br />And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/44-15.htm">Isaiah 44:15</a></span><br />Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread: yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/44-19.htm">Isaiah 44:19</a></span><br />And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-58.htm">Jeremiah 51:58</a></span><br />Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Ezekiel 4:12</a></span><br />You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a></span><br />Behold, it is cast into the fire for <span class="boldtext">fuel</span>; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for any work?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/15-6.htm">Ezekiel 15:6</a></span><br />Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for <span class="boldtext">fuel</span>, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/21-32.htm">Ezekiel 21:32</a></span><br />You shall be for <span class="boldtext">fuel</span> to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/39-9.htm">Ezekiel 39:9</a></span><br />And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/39-10.htm">Ezekiel 39:10</a></span><br />so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/habakkuk/2-13.htm">Habakkuk 2:13</a></span><br />Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/f/fuel.htm">Fuel</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/f/fuel_for_temple,_how_provided.htm">Fuel for Temple, How Provided</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><p class="pspc2"><a 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