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title: כָּמַר — grow warm · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּמַר (3648), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: grow warm. BDB 1906: vb.Niph. grow warm tender, be grow hot. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּמַר

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«כָּמַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grow warm** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 3648 · **BDB:** כָּמַר

### Glosses

they.grew.warm (1); they.had.grown.warm (1); they.have.grown.hot (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grow warm [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3648/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.Niph. grow warm tender, be grow hot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3648/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Niph. grow warm and tender, be or grow hot (NH id. Pi. heat fruit in the ground, making it ripe, over-ripe, tender; Aramaic כְּמַר id., and more gen. make warm (one’s flesh, or food); cf. kemr, fermentation, etc., in mod. Syria WetzstZPV xiv (1891), 6)— Pf. 3 pl. נִכְמְרוּ Gn 43:30 + 2 times, נִכְמָ֑רוּ La 5:10;— grow warm and tender, fig., subj. רחמים; נ׳ רַחֲמָיו אֶל־אָחִיו Gn 43:30 (J), so נ׳ רַחֲמֶיהָ עַל־בְּנָהּ 1 K 3:26; (רַחֲמָ֑י We) יַחַד נ׳ נִחוּמָ֑י Ho 11:8 (‖ נֶהְפַּךְ עָלַי לִבִּי). be or grow hot, עוֹרֵנוּ כְתַנּוּר נ׳ מִפְּנֵי וגו׳ La 5:10 our skin has become hot like a furnace, because of the famine.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּמַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3648/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 5:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/)

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עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* skin our like an.oven they.have.grown.hot because of \[the\].burning.heat(s) of.hunger

*JPS 1917:* Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

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[Genesis 43:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.30/)

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וַיְמַהֵ֣ר יוֹסֵ֗ף כִּֽי־נִכְמְר֤וּ רַחֲמָיו֙ אֶל־אָחִ֔יו וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ לִבְכּ֑וֹת וַיָּבֹ֥א הַחַ֖דְרָה וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ שָֽׁמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.hurried Joseph (dm) they.grew.warm compassion(s) his to brother his and he.sought to weep and he.went to the.inner room and he.wept there (to)

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned toward his brother; and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

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