ka.mar describes warmth arising either in compassion or in skin scorched by famine.

The verb most often occurs where compassion becomes inwardly stirred, as in the mother’s plea, Joseph’s response to his brother, and the compassion named alongside a heart turned within. In a separate bodily setting, it describes skin becoming warm like an oven under the scorching of famine.

1. Compassion stirred within · dominant

   In 1 Kings 3:26, the Niphal perfect plural form occurs because the living child’s mother’s compassion grew warm, leading to her plea that the child be given to the other woman rather than killed. In Genesis 43:30, the APB renders Joseph’s compassion as stirred before he seeks a place to weep; Hosea 11:8 places the form in the clause where all compassion is stirred as the heart is turned within.

   1 Kings 3:26Genesis 43:30Hosea 11:8
2. Bodily heat under famine · occasional

   In Lamentations 5:10, the Niphal perfect plural form is used of skin that the APB renders as having grown warm like an oven because of the scorching of famine.

   Lamentations 5:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with compassion "grew warm" in 1 Kings 3:26 and as "stirred" in Genesis 43:30 and Hosea 11:8, while Lamentations 5:10 has skin "grown warm." These are translation renderings of whole clauses.