Scorching
שָׁרָבStrong’s H8273sharav (sha-rav)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sharav is the Hebrew word usually translated “parched ground” and “burning heat”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.”
Meaning
- Burning or scorching heat, parched ground
How it's translated
- the parched ground 1
- burning heat 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁרָב sharav · scorching
burning or scorching heat, parched ground
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scorching” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCORCH'ING, participle present
tense Burning on the surface; paining by heat.
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.