חָרַר chârar — to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion)
Translated in the KJV as be angry, burn, dry, kindle.
a primitive root; to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion).
chârar in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 4Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Pilpel
Infinitive construct 1
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›