Nur is the Aramaic word for fire, cognate with Hebrew ur/esh and Syriac nura, appearing 17 times exclusively in the book of Daniel. Nearly all occurrences cluster in two dramatic settings: Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace and Daniel's vision of the Ancient of Days. In Daniel 3, the word appears twelve times as the instrument of royal coercion — the furnace of blazing fire (attun di nur yaqidta) into which Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown for refusing to worship the golden image (Dan 3:6, 11, 15, 17, 20-27). Their miraculous survival unsinged, with a fourth figure walking among them, makes nur the backdrop for one of the Old Testament's most powerful deliverances. In Daniel 7:9-10, the word shifts from threatening to theophanic: the Ancient of Days sits on a throne of fiery flames (kurse shvivin di nur), with wheels of blazing fire, and a river of fire issuing forth before him. Daniel 7:11 brings both registers together as the fourth beast is slain and its body given to the burning flame. Spanish 'fuego,' French 'feu,' and German 'Feuer' all render the elemental noun directly.