Lexicon
חָרַר
cha.rar
H2787
H:V Hebrew

to scorch

11
Occurrences
7
Books
Hebrew
Language

cha.rar describes scorching or burning by heat, of materials, bodies, and imagery of kindled strife.

The attested use describes the effects of intense heat or fire: wood, bones, bronze, people, and the speaker’s appearance are presented as scorched or burned. The same burning imagery also occurs in the clause about kindling strife.

Senses in use

  1. Scorched or burned by heat · dominant

    In Ezekiel 15:4 and Ezekiel 15:5, the Niphal forms occur after fire has consumed a piece of wood and its middle is presented as scorched. Ezekiel 24:10 and Ezekiel 24:11 place the forms in fire-and-heating actions involving bones and bronze; Isaiah 24:6 presents earth’s inhabitants as scorched, while Song of Songs 1:6 attributes a blackish appearance to the sun’s scorching.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “scorched” in Ezekiel 15:4, Ezekiel 15:5, Ezekiel 24:10, Isaiah 24:6, Job 30:30, and Song of Songs 1:6. Elsewhere it presents the surrounding imagery as “kindling strife” in Proverbs 26:21, “blow fiercely” in Jeremiah 6:29, and “withers” in Psalm 102:4, and Psalm 69:4 does not clearly isolate the term’s contribution.

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Across Scripture