Burning anger
חָרוֹןStrong’s H2740charon (cha-ron)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charon is the Hebrew word usually translated “burning of”, “from burning of” and “anger your”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.”
Meaning
- Anger, heat, burning (of anger)always used of God's anger
How it's translated
- burning of 21
- from burning of 8
- and burning of 3
- anger your 2
- anger 2
- and in fury his 1
- burning 1
- anger of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- Psalms 6
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 2
- Isaiah 2
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 32:12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
- Numbers 25:4And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
- Numbers 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
- Deuteronomy 13:17And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
- Joshua 7:26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
- 1 Samuel 28:18Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
All 40 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָרוֹן charon · burning anger
1) anger, heat, burning (of anger) 1a) always used of God's anger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “anger” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AN'GER, noun
ang'ger. [Latin ango, to choke strangle, vex; whence angor, vexation, anguish, the quinsy, angina. Gr. to strangle, to strain or draw together to vex. The primary sense is to press, squeeze, make narrow; Heb. to strangle.]
- A violent passion of the mind excited by a real or supposed injury; usually accompanied with a propensity to take vengeance, or to obtain satisfaction from the offending party.
- Paint; smart of a sore or swelling; the literal sense of the word, but little used.
All definitions and other forms of “anger”
AN'GER, verb transitive
ang'ger.
- To excite anger; to provoke; to rouse resentment.
- To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame; as, to anger an ulcer.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.