חָרוֹן
cha.ron (H2740)
burning anger
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# חָרוֹן (Charon): Burning Anger in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *charon* denotes a specific emotional state: burning anger. The term's imagery draws from the physical phenomenon of fire, suggesting anger that is intense, consuming, and difficult to contain. With 41 occurrences throughout the biblical text, the word appears frequently enough to indicate it was a standard vocabulary choice for describing heightened emotional intensity rather than a rare or specialized term. The presence of this dedicated lexeme for "burning anger" in biblical Hebrew suggests that distinguishing between ordinary anger and this more intense, consuming form was important to biblical writers and their audience. Rather than using a generic term for anger, the inclusion of the "burning" element conveyed a particular quality—the sense of anger as an active, destructive force. This figurative language rooted in fire imagery would have been immediately comprehensible to ancient readers who understood fire as both purifying and destructive. The frequency of *charon's* use across 41 biblical passages indicates its relevance was not limited to describing human emotions alone, but likely included divine anger as well—a pattern common in biblical literature where human and divine emotional language often parallels. The word thus served as a crucial linguistic tool for conveying the gravity of certain emotional moments in narratives and discourse.
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In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,
They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.
Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”
and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life. I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.