Definition

to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H2787 (חָרַר));

Where the KJV renders it

• be angry
• burn
• be displeased
• earnestly
• fret self
• grieve
• be (wax) hot
• be incensed
• kindle
• very
• be wroth. See H8474 (תַּחָרָה)

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

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