כָּמַרkâmar

grow warm and tender, be or grow hot

Pronunciation: kaw-mar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3648

Meanings

Niph`al

1. grow warm and tender (Genesis 43:30; 1 Kings 3:26; Hosea 11:8)

2. be or grow hot (Lamentations 5:10)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 43:30 Then Joseph hurried from the room because he was overcome with emotion for his brother. He went into his private room, where he broke down and wept.
  • 1 Kings 3:26 Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”
  • Lamentations 5:10 The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.
  • Hosea 11:8 “Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I destroy you like Admah or demolish you like Zeboiim? My heart is torn within me, and my compassion overflows.

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).