Flame, Flaming - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Flame, Flaming
[ 1,,G5395, phlox ]akin to Lat. fulgeo, to shine," is used apart from pur, "fire," in Luke 16:24; with pur, it signifies "a fiery flame," lit., "a flame of fire," Acts 7:30; 2 Thessalonians 1:8, where the fire is to be understood as the instrument of Divine judgment; Hebrews 1:7, where the meaning probably is that God makes His angels as active and powerful as a "flame" of fire; in Revelation 1:14; Revelation 2:18; Revelation 19:12, of the eyes of the Lord Jesus as emblematic of penetrating judgment, searching out evil.