chori · burning anger

What it means

chori (חֳרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burning anger”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The fierce fire of anger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• burning ×3
• hot ×2
• heat ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Exodus 11:8

  Then all these servants of yours will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you!’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

• Deuteronomy 29:24

  all the nations will say, “Why has YHWH done thus to this land? What is the heat of this great anger?”

• 1 Samuel 20:34

  Jonathan rose from the table in hot anger, and he did not eat bread on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to shame.

• 2 Chronicles 25:10

  Amaziah separated them, the band that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their place; and their anger burned greatly against Judah, and they returned to their place in burning anger.

• Isaiah 7:4

  and say to him, ‘Be careful and keep calm; do not fear, and do not let your heart grow faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, at the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

• Lamentations 2:3

  He has cut off in burning anger every horn of Israel; he has turned back his right hand before the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a fire of flame that devours all around.