tongues of fire
Licking orange heat
Tongues of fire are flames shaped like tongues—pointed and flickering.
The phrase appears most famously in the biblical account of Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles as tongues of fire, granting them the ability to speak in foreign languages.
The image suggests divine inspiration or spiritual transformation: The congregation prayed for tongues of fire to fall upon them.
- PentecostSpirit's arrival celebration
- divine presenceFelt nearness of deity
- sacred flamePerpetual religious fire
- burning bushDeciduous shrub, vivid fall color
- passionIntense emotional drive
flames · Holy Spirit · Holy Ghost · inspiration · prophecy · apostles · glossolalia · enlightenment · spiritual awakening · fervor · miracles · transformation · zeal · wildfires · lightning · lava flows · sanctification · auroras
- biblical miracleswalking on water, water into wine, raising Lazarus, calming the storm, loaves and fishes
- divine revelationtheophany, epiphany, illumination, divine voice, heavenly voice
- Pentecostalismglossolalia, Holy Spirit, holy spirit, Pentecostal, Azusa Street Revival
- Confirmationconfirmation ceremony, confirmation class, confirmation name, confirmation rite, chrism
tongues of firespiritual darkness
State of profound disconnection
spiritual emptiness · cursed · unanointed · apostasy · spiritual death
tongues of fireflood waters
Overflow from inundation
ice · deluge · frost · still waters · darkness
tongues of fireTower of Babel
Origin of linguistic diversity
muteness · struck dumb · speechlessness · incomprehension · babble