Definition

to be hot (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• enflame self
• get (have) heat
• be (wax) hot
• (be
• wax) warm (self
• at)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.