Charah חָרָה

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Charah
חָרָה
Transliterationcharah
Strong's numberH2734
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto be incensed
Occurrences91 in 88 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (11)

Charah (Hebrew חָרָה, Strong's H2734) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to be incensed”. It occurs 91 times in 88 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to be hot, furious, burn, becomeangry, be kindled
1a) (Qal) to burn, kindle (anger)
1b) (Niphal) to be angry with, be incensed
1c) (Hiphil) to burn, kindle
1d) (Hithpael) to heat oneself in vexation

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVkindled (44), wroth (12), hot (10), angry (9), fret (4), displeased (3), incensed (2), displease (1), burn (1), grieved (1), very wroth (1), earnestly (1)
BSBburned (22), be angry (7), was kindled (6), angry (4), he burned (4), burns (4), became angry (3), will be kindled (3), will burn (3), fret (3), was furious (2), he was furious (2), and 23 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Charah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Hosea

Jonah

Habakkuk

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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