charon · burning anger

What it means

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

Burning of 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. Very fierce anger, usually YHWH's.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• burning ×40
• heat ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×9
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×2

• Exodus 15:7

  In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow those who rise against you; you send out your burning anger; it consumes them like stubble.

• Exodus 32:12

  Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the ground’? Turn from the heat of your anger and relent concerning the evil planned against your people.

• Numbers 25:4

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take all the heads of the people and hang them for YHWH in front of the sun, and the burning anger of YHWH will turn away from Israel.”

• Numbers 32:14

  And look, you have risen in place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of YHWH against Israel.

• Deuteronomy 13:17

  Nothing of what is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, so that YHWH may turn from the burning of his anger and give you mercy and have mercy on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

• Joshua 7:26

  And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day. Then YHWH turned from the burning of his anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH and did not carry out his burning anger against Amalek, therefore YHWH has done this thing to you this day.

• 2 Kings 23:26

  Nevertheless, YHWH did not turn from the burning of his great anger with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

• 2 Chronicles 28:11

  Now listen to me and send back the captives whom you have taken captive from your brothers, for the burning anger of YHWH is upon you.”

• 2 Chronicles 28:13

  and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives here, for what you intend leads to guilt before YHWH upon us, to add to our sins and to our acts of guilt; for great is the guilt we have, and there is burning anger against Israel.”

• 2 Chronicles 29:10

  Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, so that his burning anger may turn away from us.

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers; give your hand to YHWH, and come to his sanctuary which he has sanctified forever, and serve YHWH your Elohim, and his burning anger will turn away from you.

• Ezra 10:14

  Please, let our officials stand for all the assembly, and let all who in our cities have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of each city and its judges, until the burning anger of our Elohim is turned away from us over this matter.”

• Nehemiah 13:18

  Did not your fathers do thus, and our Elohim brought on us all this evil, and on this city? Yet you are adding burning on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

• Job 20:23

  When he is about to fill his belly, he will send against him the burning of his anger, and rain it on him upon his flesh.

• Psalms 2:5

  Then he will speak to them in his anger, and with his burning wrath he will dismay them:

• Psalms 58:9

  Before your pots feel the bramble, whether green or burning, he will sweep it away in a storm.

• Psalms 69:24

  Pour out upon them your indignation, and let the burning of your anger overtake them.

• Psalms 78:49

  He sent against them the burning of his anger, wrath and indignation and distress, a dispatch of messengers of evils.

• Psalms 85:3

  You gathered in all your wrath; you turned back from the burning of your anger.

• Psalms 88:16

  Over me your burning angers have passed; your horrors have annihilated me.

• Isaiah 13:9

  Look, the day of YHWH is coming, cruel, and wrath and burning anger, to make the earth a desolation, and its sinners he will destroy from it.

• Isaiah 13:13

  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will quake out of its place at the wrath of YHWH Tsevaot, and on the day of his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 4:8

  For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the burning anger of YHWH has not turned back from us.

• Jeremiah 4:26

  I looked, and look, the orchard land was the wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before YHWH, before his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 12:13

  They have sown wheat and thorns they have reaped; they have worn themselves out; it does not profit them. And be ashamed of your harvests because of the burning anger of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 25:37

  and the peaceful pastures are silenced before the burning anger of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 25:38

  Like a young lion he has left his lair; for their land has become a horror before the burning of the oppressor, and before his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 30:24

  The burning of the anger of YHWH will not turn back until he has done them and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart; in the latter days you will understand it.

• Jeremiah 49:37

  And I will dismay Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life; and I will bring upon them evil, the burning of my anger, declares YHWH; and I will send after them the sword until I have consumed them.

• Jeremiah 51:45

  Go out from her midst, my people, and save, each one, his life, from the burning of the anger of YHWH!

• Lamentations 1:12

  “Is it nothing to you, all who pass by on the road? Look and see if there is pain like my pain that has been dealt to me, with which YHWH has afflicted me in the day of his burning anger.

• Lamentations 4:11

  YHWH has spent his fury; he has poured out his burning anger; and he has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.

• Ezekiel 7:12

  The time has come, the day has arrived; let the buyer not rejoice, and the seller not mourn, for burning anger is upon all her multitude.

• Ezekiel 7:14

  They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything, but there is no one going to battle, for my burning anger is upon all her multitude.

• Hosea 11:9

  I will not carry out the burning of my anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am El, and not a man, in your midst the Holy One; and I will not come into the city.

• Jonah 3:9

  Who knows? Elohim may turn and relent, and turn back from the burning of his anger, and we will not perish.”

• Nahum 1:6

  Before his indignation who can stand? And who can rise up in the burning of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down before him.

• Zephaniah 2:2

  before the decree gives birth —like chaff the day passes—, before there comes upon you the burning of the anger of YHWH, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of YHWH.

• Zephaniah 3:8

  Therefore wait for me, declares YHWH, for the day when I rise up for the plunder; for my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them my indignation, all the burning of my anger; for by the fire of my jealousy all the earth will be devoured.

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