STRONGS NUMBER H6272


Word Summary
atham: perhaps to burn
Original Word: עָתַם
Transliteration: atham
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-tham)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: perhaps to burn
Meaning: to glow, be desolated
Strong's Concordance
be darkened

A primitive root; probably to glow, i.e. (figuratively) be desolated -- be darkened.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6272. atham

[עָתַם‎] verb dubious;

Niph`al Perfect3masculine singular אָ֑רֶץ נֶעְתַּםIsaiah 9:18 ( is be clogged in speech, suffocating heat, burned by heat; hence Thes scorched, but derived sense dubious; see RSJPhil. xiii. 61 f.); — read perhaps נִצְּתָה‎ (√ יָצַת‎) is burned up, compare RSl.c., Krochm Kit CheHpt.