Burning
כְּוִיָּהStrong’s H3555keviyyah (ke-viy-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Keviyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “burning”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
Meaning
- Burning, branding, branding scar, burn
How it's translated
- burning 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כְּוִיָּה keviyyah · burning
burning, branding, branding scar, burn
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “burning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BURN'ING, participle present
tense Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.
All definitions and other forms of “burning”
BURN'ING, noun
Combustion; the act of expelling volatile matter and reducing to ashes, or to a calx; a fire; inflammation; the heat or raging of passion. In surgery, actual cautery; cauterization.
BURN'ING, adjective
Powerful; vehement; as a burning shame; a burning scent.
- Much heated; very hot; scorching.
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.