Burning
צָרָבStrong’s H6867tsatav (tsa-tav)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsatav is the Hebrew word usually translated “scar of” and “scorching”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.”
Meaning
- Adj
- Scab, scar of a sore
How it's translated
- scar of 2
- scorching 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:28And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
- Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Hebrew dictionary
צָרָב tsatav · burning
adj burning, scorching
צָרֶ֫בֶת tsarevet · scar
scab, scar of a sore
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.