Chârar — H2787

Definition

verb

to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion)

1. to burn, be hot, be scorched, be charred
1. (Qal)
1. to be hot, be scorched
2. to burn, be burned
2. (Niphal)
1. to be scorched, be burned
2. to burn
3. to be dry, be angry
3. (Pilpel) to cause to burn

Usually translated as

burn, kindle, be angry, dry

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• ekleípō (G1587)
• thermaínō (G2328)
• tarachḗ (G5016)

Occurrences

Chârar occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (4)

• Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned (חָ֝֗רָה) with heat.
• Psalms 69:3 — I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried (נִחַ֪ר): mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
• Psalms 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned (נִחָֽרוּ) as an hearth.
• Proverbs 26:21 — As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle (לְחַרְחַר) strife.
• Isaiah 24:6 — Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned (חָרוּ֙), and few men left.
• Jeremiah 6:29 — The bellows are burned (נָחַ֣ר), the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
• Ezekiel 15:4 — Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned (נָחָ֔ר). Is it meet for any work?
• Ezekiel 15:5 — Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned (וַיֵּחָ֔ר)?
• Ezekiel 24:10 — Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned (יֵחָֽרוּ).
• Ezekiel 24:11 — Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn (וְחָ֣רָה), and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.