STRONGS NUMBER H2215


Word Summary
zarab: to burn, scorch
Original Word: זָרַב
Transliteration: zarab
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-rab')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to burn, scorch
Meaning: to burn, scorch
Strong's Concordance
wax warm

A primitive root; to flow away -- wax warm.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2215. zarab

[זָרַב‎] verb only

Pu`al, meaning dubious; probably (from context) be burnt, scorched

Pu`al Imperfect in relative clause, נִצְמָ֑תוּ יְזָֹֽרְבוּ בְּעֵתJob 6:17 ("" מִמְּקוֺמָם נִדְעֲכוּ בְּחֻמּוֺ‎), of brooks scorched and drying up ("" form of צָרַב‎ q. v.; so Ew Di De Hoffm Kau AV RV MV; > Thes Rob-Ges who compare Arabic flow away, compare Late Hebrew זְרִיבָה‎; and Mich DlPr 36 f. VBm (are straitened) RVm (shrink) compare Aramaic compress, (Arabic is to make a wooden enclosure), Assyrian zarâbu, ZimBP 32 n. 56, 70, 95).