Definition

a burning of anger

Etymology

or (shortened) חָרֹן; from H2734 (חָרָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• sore displeasure
• fierce(-ness)
• fury
• (fierce) wrath(-ful)

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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