Definition

heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)

Etymology

or (Daniel 11:44) חֵמָא; from H3179 (יָחַם);

Where the KJV renders it

• anger
• bottles
• hot displeasure
• furious(-ly
• -ry)
• heat
• indignation
• poison
• rage
• wrath(-ful). See H2529 (חֶמְאָה)

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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