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title: חֳרִי — burning · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֳרִי (2750), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: burning. BDB 1906: n.m. burning. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֳרִי

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«חֳרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **burning** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 2750 · **BDB:** חֳרִי

### Glosses

heat (4); \[is\].the.heat (1); the.heat (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

burning [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2750/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. burning [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2750/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. burning, always חֳרִי (הָ)אַף of Moses Ex 11:8 (J); Jonathan 1 S 20:34; army of Ephraim 2 Ch 25:10; Rezin Is 7:4; of God Dt 29:23 La 2:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (21 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֳרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2750/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 29:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.23/)

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וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם עַל־מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה כָּ֖כָה לָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את מֶ֥ה חֳרִ֛י הָאַ֥ף הַגָּד֖וֹל הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.say all the nations concerning what? has.he.done Yahweh thus to the land (the) this why? \[is\].the.heat of the.anger (the) great (the) this

*JPS 1917:* even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?'

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[Lamentations 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.3/)

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גָּדַ֣ע בָּֽחֳרִיאַ֗ף כֹּ֚ל קֶ֣רֶן יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הֵשִׁ֥יב אָח֛וֹר יְמִינ֖וֹ מִפְּנֵ֣י אוֹיֵ֑ב וַיִּבְעַ֤ר בְּיַעֲקֹב֙ כְּאֵ֣שׁ לֶֽהָבָ֔ה אָכְלָ֖ה סָבִֽיב׃ס

*Word for word:* he.has.cut.off in.\[the\] heat of.anger every (the).horn of.Israel he.has.turned.back backward hand his.right from before \[the\].enemy and he.has.burned (in) Jacob like a.fire of.flame \[which\].it.has.consumed all.around

*JPS 1917:* He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back His right hand from before the enemy; and He hath burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

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