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STRONGS NUMBER H2787
Transliteration: charar
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be hot or scorched, to burn
Meaning: to be hot or scorched, to burn
Word Summary
charar: to be hot or scorched, to burn
Original Word: חָרַרTransliteration: charar
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be hot or scorched, to burn
Meaning: to be hot or scorched, to burn
Strong's Concordance
be angry, burn, dry, kindle A primitive root; to glow, i.e. Literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion -- be angry, burn, dry, kindle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2787. charar
I. [חָרַר] verb be hot, scorched, burn poet. & late (Arabic be hot, burn, thirst; Ethiopic Aramaic חַר; compare Assyrian arâru, glow, SASmAssurbanipal i. p. 97 BelserBAS ii. 155) —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular חָ֫רָה Job 30:30, וְחָ֫רָה consecutive Ezekiel 24:11, חָ֫רוּ Isaiah 24:6; —
1 be hot, scorched, Jerusalem, under figure of caldron Ezekiel 24:11.
2 burn = be burned, figurative of men, in ׳יs judgement, Isaiah 24:6.
3 burn, of bones of sick men in fever ׳ח מִנִּיחֹֿרֶב Job 30:30.
Niph`al Perfect נָחַר Jeremiah 6:29, נָחָ֑ר Ezekiel 15:4, נִחַר Psalm 69:4; 3plural נִחָ֑רוּ 102:4 (Köi. 368); Imperfect וַיֵּחָ֑ר Ezekiel 15:5 יֵחָ֑רוּ 24:10 (strike out Co B and others)
1 be scorched, of bellows מַמֻּחַ in fierce fire Jeremiah 6:29 **from √ נחר snort, puff, according to Mich Ew Gf Gie and others, — Du; (figurative); scorched, charred, of the vine (as fuel) Ezekiel 15:4-5, middle part charred, the ends devoured (אכל) by fire (simile of inhabitants of Jerusalem); bones (simile id.) 24:10 (see above).
2 burn, of bones in fever Psalm 102:4 (כְּמוֺקֵד, compare
Qal Job 30:30); be parched, of throat ׳נח גרוני Job 69:4. — Isaiah 41:11; 45:24; Song of Solomon 1:6 see חרה.
Pilpel Infinitive לְחַרְחַררִֿיב Proverbs 26:21 to kindle strife.