Hebrew verb · H2787
חָרַר
chararkhaw-rar'
to scorch
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chârar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2787is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2787
to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion)
The King James renders it: be angry, burn, dry, kindle.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
charar is rendered "to scorch". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Job 30:30חָ֝֗רָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it has been charred1
- and it will be hot1
- it has become parched1
- it has burned1
- it is charred1
- it puffs1
- let them be charred1
- they have been burned1
- they have diminished1
- to kindling1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְחָ֣רָה1
- וַיֵּחָ֔ר1
- חָ֝֗רָה1
- חָרוּ֙1
- יֵחָֽרוּ׃1
- לְחַרְחַר־1
- נִחַ֪ר1
- נָחַ֣ר1
- נָחָ֔ר1
- נִחָֽרוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVNp3ms
- Hc/VNw3ms1Hc/VNw3ms
- Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVNi3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
Job
one use
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- חָ֝֗רָהcharahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has burned
Psalms
two uses
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- נִחַ֪רnicharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has become parched
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- נִחָֽרוּ׃nicharuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been burned
Proverbs
one use
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
- לְחַרְחַר־lecharchar-preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to kindling
Isaiah
one use
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
- חָרוּ֙charuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have diminished
Jeremiah
one use
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
- נָחַ֣רnacharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it puffs
Ezekiel
four uses
No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
- נָחָ֔רnacharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is charred
Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!
- וַיֵּחָ֔רvaiyecharHc/VNw3mstagged: and it has been charred
Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.
- יֵחָֽרוּ׃yecharuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them be charred
Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.
- וְחָ֣רָהvecharahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will be hot
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.