Biblica Analytica

חֳרִי

cho.ri (H2750)

burning

6 verses 6 books OT 6 / NT 0
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# Analyzing חֳרִי (Chori): Burning The Hebrew word חֳרִי (chori) carries the fundamental meaning of "burning" and appears six times throughout the biblical text. This relatively rare term denotes a state of intense heat or the process of combustion, functioning as a straightforward descriptor of fire or thermal activity in its various forms. The limited frequency of this word's appearance—only six occurrences—suggests it was not the primary or most common Hebrew term for expressing the concept of burning or fire. Rather, it represents a specialized or poetic choice within biblical Hebrew's vocabulary for thermal phenomena. Its selective use indicates that biblical writers had alternatives available and chose this particular word for specific communicative purposes, though the lexical data provided does not specify those contexts in detail. Without access to the specific biblical passages where חֳרִי appears, we can note that its existence alongside other Hebrew terms for fire and burning demonstrates the semantic richness of biblical Hebrew in describing physical and potentially metaphorical states of heat and destruction. The word's basic, concrete meaning would have been readily understood by Hebrew speakers as referring to the observable phenomenon of burning.

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Exodus 11:8

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Deuteronomy 29:24

Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

1 Samuel 20:34

So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

2 Chronicles 25:10

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

Isaiah 7:4

Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Lamentations 2:3

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.