STRONGS NUMBER H2787


Word Summary
charar: to be hot or scorched, to burn
Original Word: חָרַר
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
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 חָ֫רָהJob 30:30, וְחָ֫רָה‎ consecutive Ezekiel 24:11, חָ֫רוּIsaiah 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 מִנִּיחֹֿרֶבJob 30:30.

Niph`al Perfect נָחַרJeremiah 6:29, נָחָ֑רEzekiel 15:4, נִחַרPsalm 69:4; 3plural נִחָ֑רוּ102:4 (Köi. 368); Imperfect וַיֵּחָ֑רEzekiel 15:5 יֵחָ֑רוּ24:10 (strike out Co B and others)

1 be scorched, of bellows מַמֻּחַ‎ in fierce fire Jeremiah 6:29 **from √ נחרsnort, 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 לְחַרְחַררִֿיבProverbs 26:21 to kindle strife.