HebrewH2740Noun (Masculine)

חָרוֹן

cha.ron

35Occurrences
H2740Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a burning of anger

or (shortened) חָרֹן; from H2734 (חָרָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. anger, heat, burning (of anger) 1a) always used of God's anger

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

חָרוֹן appears 35 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
8
2 Chronicles
4
Exodus
2
Ezk
2
Isaiah
2
Lamentations
2
Numbers
2
Psalms
2

Key Passages

1 Samuel 28:18BSB

Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out His burning anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

Exodus 32:12BSB

Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

Jeremiah 12:13BSB

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.They have exhausted themselves to no avail.Bear the shame of your harvestbecause of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

Jeremiah 51:45BSB

Come out of her, My people!Save your lives, each of you,from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Nehemiah 13:18BSB

Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.