חָרָה

cha.rah · to be incensed

Hebrew · Strong's H2734 · Verb · Sounds like: khaw-raw' · 91 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root (compare חָרַר); to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy; be angry, burn, be displeased, [idiom] earnestly, fret self, grieve, be (wax) hot, be incensed, kindle, [idiom] very, be wroth. See תַּחָרָה.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָרָה vb. burn, be kindled, of anger
Qal
1. of man
2. of God
Niph. be angry with
Hiph. burned with zeal (?) in repairing; and kindled his anger against me
Hithp. heat oneself in vexation.—The foll. forms are somewhat dub.: how canst thou hotly contend (in a race) with the horses?; because thou strivest eagerly (to excel) in cedar

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:10 וַיִּ֨חַר vai.Yi.char · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.

  2. 2 Chronicles 25:15 וַיִּֽחַר־ vai.yi.char- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Wherefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?

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