חֵמָהchêmâh

חֵמָא: see חֵמָה below יחם

Pronunciation: khay-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2534

Meanings

חֵמָה: wrath, see below יחם; חֵמָה, see חֶמְאָה; חַמָּה, חַמָּן, חַמּוֺן, חַמַּת see below חמם. below (Job 29:6)

חֵמָה: heat, rage

1. heat

a. fever (Hosea 7:5)

b. venom, poison (Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:33; Psalms 58:5)

2. burning anger, rage

a. man of rage =, one great in rage (Genesis 27:44; 2 Samuel 11:20; 2 Kings 5:12)

b. in the fury of his power. (Daniel 8:6)

c. against, על, rage of meeting (Jeremiah 4:4; 2 Kings 22:13; 2 Kings 22:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 125 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 27:44 Stay there with him until your brother cools off.
  • Leviticus 26:28 then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.
  • Numbers 25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.
  • Deuteronomy 9:19 I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you. But again he listened to me.
  • Deuteronomy 29:23 They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’
  • Deuteronomy 29:28 In great anger and fury the Lord uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).