חָרַר charar
Hebrew word for “to scorch” · Strong’s H2787 · used 10 times in 10 verses
Meaning
1) to burn, be hot, be scorched, be charred;
How it is translated
Glosses given for charar in context, with how often each is used:
- has burned 1
- has become parched 1
- have been burned 1
- kindling 1
- have diminished 1
- puffs 1
- charred 1
- has been charred 1
- them be charred 1
- will be hot 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 15 (2), Ezekiel 24 (2), Job 30 (1), Psalms 69 (1), Psalms 102 (1), Proverbs 26 (1), Isaiah 24 (1), Jeremiah 6 (1)
Forms
- נחר 3
- חרה 1
- נחרו 1
- לחרחר 1
- חרו 1
- ויחר 1
- יחרו 1
- וחרה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with charar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 5
- עֶצֶם etsem “bone” 3
- גַּחֶלֶת gechel “coal” 2
- תָּמַם tamam “to finish” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 3
- מְלָאכָה melakhah “work” 2
- כָּלָה kalah “to end” 2
- עֵץ ets “tree” 2
- תָּוֶךְ tavekh “midst” 2
- הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 2
Key verses
The verses using charar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- Psalms 69:3 — I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Psalms 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Proverbs 26:21 — As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle 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, and few men left.
- Jeremiah 6:29 — The bellows are burned, 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. 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?
- Ezekiel 24:10 — Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
- Ezekiel 24:11 — Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.