חֵמָה
chêmâh · khay-maw'
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (Daniel 11:44) חֵמָא; from H3179 (יָחַם);
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
- heat
- figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(-ful). See H2529 (חֶמְאָה).
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֵמָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
125 occurrences · 125 OT · 0 NT · 73 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- my fury10 · 15%
- wrath6 · 9%
- fury5 · 7%
- and in my fury4 · 6%
- in fury4 · 6%
- in my fury3 · 4%
- of the fury3 · 4%
- thy wrath3 · 4%
- his fury3 · 4%
- me in thy hot displeasure2 · 3%
- therefore my wrath2 · 3%
- is the wrath2 · 3%
- my wrath2 · 3%
- with fury2 · 3%
- and with fury2 · 3%
- of wrath2 · 3%
- and i will cause my fury2 · 3%
- and in fury2 · 3%
- and my fury2 · 3%
- lest my fury2 · 3%
- upon them, with the poison1 · 1%
- and in wrath1 · 1%
- and in his wrath1 · 1%
- and hot displeasure1 · 1%
- unto you also in fury1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.