Dict: smith - FIRE

smith:

FIRE - F>@ - is represented as the symbol of Jehovah’s presence and the instrument of his power, in the way either of approval or of destruction. kjv@Exodus:3:2 kjv@Exodus:14:19) etc. There could not be a better symbol for Jehovah than this of fire, it being immaterial, mysterious, but visible, warming, cheering, comforting, but also terrible and consuming. Parallel with this application of fire and with its symbolical meaning are to be noted the similar use for sacrificial purposes and the respect paid to it, or to the heavenly bodies as symbols of deity, which prevailed among so many nations of antiquity, and of which the traces are not even now extinct; e.g. the Sabean and Magian systems of worship. kjv@Isaiah:27:9) Fire for sacred purposes obtained elsewhere than from the altar was called "strange fire," and for the use of such Nadab and Abihu were punished with death by fire from God. kjv@Leviticus:10:1-2; kjv@Numbers:3:4 kjv@Numbers:26:61)

FIREPAN - F>@ - one of the vessels of the temple service. kjv@Exodus:27:3 kjv@Exodus:38:3; kjv@2Kings:25:15; kjv@Jeremiah:52:19) The same word is elsewhere rendered "snuff-dish," kjv@Exodus:25:38 kjv@Exodus:37:23; kjv@Numbers:4:9) and "censer." kjv@Leviticus:10:1 kjv@Leviticus:16:12; kjv@Numbers:16:6) ff. There appear, therefore, to have been two articles so called: one, like a chafing-dish, to carry live coals for the purpose of burning incense; another, like a snuffer-dish, to be used in trimming the lamps, in order to carry the snuffers and convey away the snuff.