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Lexicon :: Strong's H2534 - ḥēmâ

Aa
חֵמָה
Transliteration
ḥēmâ
Pronunciation
khay-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 860a

Strong’s Definitions

חֵמָה chêmâh, khay-maw'; or (Daniel 11:44) חֵמָא chêmâʼ; from H3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever):—anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(-ful). See H2529.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 124x

The KJV translates Strong's H2534 in the following manner: fury (67x), wrath (34x), poison (6x), furious (4x), displeasure (3x), rage (2x), anger (1x), bottles (1x), furious (with H1167) (1x), furiously (1x), heat (1x), indignation (1x), wrathful (1x), wroth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 124x
The KJV translates Strong's H2534 in the following manner: fury (67x), wrath (34x), poison (6x), furious (4x), displeasure (3x), rage (2x), anger (1x), bottles (1x), furious (with H1167) (1x), furiously (1x), heat (1x), indignation (1x), wrathful (1x), wroth (1x).
  1. heat, rage, hot displeasure, indignation, anger, wrath, poison, bottles

    1. heat

      1. fever

      2. venom, poison (fig.)

    2. burning anger, rage

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֵמָה chêmâh, khay-maw'; or (Daniel 11:44) חֵמָא chêmâʼ; from H3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever):—anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(-ful). See H2529.
STRONGS H2534: Abbreviations
חֵמָה (once חֵמָא): 121 noun feminine heat, rage (for יְחֵמָה ֗֗֗; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יַחְמָא poison, aXtmeo heat, wrath, poison, BrockLex. 116, also Nö§ 103; Arabic حُمَةً poison, Lane651; Assyrian imtu, spittle, breath, poison, DlHWB 78 Muss-ArnCD 62) — absolute חֵמָה Nahum 1:2 + 39 times; חֵמָא Daniel 11:44; construct חֲמַת Genesis 27:44 + 25 times; suffix חֲמָתִי Jeremiah 4:4 + 36 times; חֲמָֽתְךָ Jeremiah 10:25 + 8 times; חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ Psalm 88:8; Psalm 89:47; חֲמָתוֺ Isaiah 51:17 + 8 times; חֲמָתָם Job 6:4; plural חֵמוֺת Proverbs 22:24, חֵמֹת Psalm 76:11; —
1. heat;
a. fever, חֲמַת מִיַּיִן Hosea 7:5 fever from wine, wine-fever (on stative construct see Ges§ 130, 1).
b. venom, poison (figurative): חֲמַת זֹחֲלֵי עָפָר Deuteronomy 32:24; תַּנִּינִים ח׳ Deuteronomy 32:33; נָחָשׁ ח׳ Psalm 58:5 compare Psalm 58:5; עַכְשׁוּב ח׳ Psalm 140:4; poison of arrows (of י׳) Job 6:4.
2. burning anger, rage:
a. of man: Genesis 27:44 (J), 2 Samuel 11:20; 2 Kings 5:12; Esther 1:12; Esther 2:1; Esther 3:5; Esther 5:9 (against, עַל), Esther 7:7, 10; Psalm 37:8 (|| אַף), Psalm 76:11 (yet on text see Che), Proverbs 6:34; Proverbs 15:1, 18 (אִישׁ חֵמָה man of rage = raging or wrathful man), Proverbs 16:4; Proverbs 19:19 (גְּדָלאח׳ Qr=one great in rage, see De Now), Proverbs 27:4 (|| אַף), Isaiah 51:13 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 23:25; אִישׁ חֵמוֺת Proverbs 22:24 (|| בַּעַל אָ֑ף); בַּעַל חֵמָה Proverbs 29:22 (|| אִישׁ אַף); חֵמָה עַזָּה strong rage Proverbs 21:14 (|| אַף); חֲמַת רוּחִי Ezekiel 3:14 the rage of my spirit.
b. of the he-goat in Daniel's vision, בַּחֲמַת כֹחוֺ Daniel 8:6 in the fury of his power.
c. of God (י׳), often Jeremiah, Isaiah2, Ezekiel, Psalms: Jeremiah 4:4 + 16 times Jeremiah; 2 Kings 22:13, 17; Isaiah 27:4 (Hi Ew Di Du; on other interpretations, and on text see Di), Isaiah 63:5; Lamentations 2:4; Ezekiel 5:13 + 29 times Ezekiel; Numbers 25:11 (P), 2 Chronicles 12:7; 34:21, 25; 36:16; Psalm 59:14; Psalm 79:6; Psalm 88:8; Psalm 89:47; Psalm 106:23; Job 21:20; apparently also Job 19:29; Job 36:18 see Di; often || אַף Micah 5:14; Deuteronomy 9:19; Deuteronomy 29:22; Isaiah 42:25 (אַפּוֹ as appositive, + עֱזוּז מִלְחָמָה), Isaiah 63:3, 6; Daniel 9:16; Psalm 6:2; Psalm 78:38; Psalm 90:7; לְהָשִׁיב אַפּוֹ בְּחֵמָהֺ Psalm 66:15 (|| וְגַעֲרַתוֺ בְּלַהֲבֵיאֵֿשׁ), + Jeremiah 23:19; Jeremiah 30:23 of the whirlwind of י׳; || אַף + קֶצֶף גָּדוֺל Deuteronomy 29:27; Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 32:37; || אַף + תֹּכְחוֺת חֵמָה Ezekiel 5:15, compare תּוֺכְחוֺת חֵמָה alone Ezekiel 25:17; || אַפּוֹ חֲרוֺן Nahum 1:6; Lamentations 4:11; || קֶצֶף Isaiah 34:2 (of fury against, על), Psalm 38:2; || גְּעָרָה Isaiah 51:20; || גְּמוּל Isaiah 59:18; || קִנְאָה Ezekiel 36:6, compare חֵמָה גְדוֺלָה קִנֵּאתִי Zechariah 8:2 (|| קִנְאָה גדולה); דַּם חֵמָה וְקִנְאָה Ezekiel 16:38 (on text see Co); חֲמַת קֶ֑רִי Leviticus 26:28 rage of meeting, i.e. encountering them in rage; כּוֺס חֲמָתוֺ(ת־ִיׅ Isaiah 51:17, 22 the cup of his (my) fury; כּוֺס הַיַּיִן הַחֵמָה הַזּאֹת Jeremiah 25:15; בַּעַל חֵמָה a possessor of fury=furious Nahum 1:2 (|| נֹקֵם, אֵל קִנּוֺא).
[חֵמָה עַלrage against one: Isaiah 34:2; 2 Chronicles 28:9. — Verbs used with חֵמָה are:
2. a.: שׁוּב Genesis 27:44, הֵשִׁיב Proverbs 15:1, עָלָה 2 Samuel 11:20, בָּעַר Esther 1:12, שָׁכַךְ Esther 2:1; Esther 7:10;
2. c.: הֵשִׁיב turn away wrath of י׳ Numbers 25:11; Psalm 106:23; Jeremiah 18:20 (but הָשִׁיכ בְּחֵמָה אַפּוֹ Isaiah 66:15 to recompense his anger in fury, give it as requital); י׳ ח׳ is kindled against one יצת ב Niph. 2 Kings 22:13, 17; it burns בָּֽעֲרָה Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 21:12; Jeremiah 44:6; Psalm 89:47; arises עלה 2 Chronicles 36:16, compare as object of עלה Hiph. Ezekiel 24:8; is poured out נִתְּכָה בְ 2 Chronicles 12:7; 34:21, 25; Jeremiah 7:20; נִתְּכָה עַל Jeremiah 42:18 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 44:6; נִתְּכָה כָאֵשׁ Nahum 1:6; י׳ pours it out שָׁפַךְ אֶל Psalm 79:6; שָׁפַךְ עַל Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 10:25; Ezekiel 7:8; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 14:19; Ezekiel 16:38 (according to Co's conjecture), Ezekiel 20:8, 13, 21; Ezekiel 22:22; Ezekiel 30:15; Ezekiel 36:18; שָׁפַךְ כָּאֵשׁ Lamentations 2:4; חֵמָה שְׁפוּכָה Ezekiel 20:33, 34; בְ הֵנִיחַ ח׳ bring to rest (i.e. satisfy) one's fury upon Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 16:42; Ezekiel 24:13; כִּלָּה ח׳ Lamentations 4:11; + בְּ Ezekiel 5:13 I have accomplished my fury upon them (in their case), Ezekiel 6:12; Ezekiel 13:15.]

Biblical Aramaic

יחם (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew יָחַם, whence חֵמָה).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

27:44; 27:44; 27:44

Leviticus

26:28

Numbers

25:11; 25:11

Deuteronomy

9:19; 29:22; 29:27; 32:24; 32:33

2 Samuel

11:20; 11:20

2 Kings

5:12; 22:13; 22:13; 22:17; 22:17

2 Chronicles

12:7; 12:7; 28:9; 34:21; 34:21; 34:25; 34:25; 36:16; 36:16

Esther

1:12; 1:12; 2:1; 2:1; 3:5; 5:9; 7:7; 7:10; 7:10

Job

6:4; 6:4; 19:29; 21:20; 36:18

Psalms

6:2; 37:8; 38:2; 58:5; 58:5; 59:14; 66:15; 76:11; 76:11; 78:38; 79:6; 79:6; 88:8; 88:8; 89:47; 89:47; 89:47; 90:7; 106:23; 106:23; 140:4

Proverbs

6:34; 15:1; 15:1; 15:18; 16:4; 19:19; 21:14; 22:24; 22:24; 27:4; 29:22

Isaiah

27:4; 34:2; 34:2; 42:25; 42:25; 51:13; 51:17; 51:17; 51:20; 51:22; 59:18; 63:3; 63:5; 63:6; 66:15

Jeremiah

4:4; 4:4; 4:4; 7:20; 10:25; 10:25; 18:20; 21:5; 21:12; 23:19; 25:15; 30:23; 32:37; 42:18; 44:6; 44:6

Lamentations

2:4; 2:4; 4:11; 4:11

Ezekiel

3:14; 5:13; 5:13; 5:13; 5:15; 6:12; 7:8; 9:8; 13:15; 14:19; 16:38; 16:38; 16:42; 20:8; 20:13; 20:21; 20:33; 20:34; 22:22; 23:25; 24:8; 24:13; 25:17; 30:15; 36:6; 36:18

Daniel

8:6; 9:16; 11:44

Hosea

7:5

Micah

5:14

Nahum

1:2; 1:2; 1:6; 1:6

Zechariah

8:2

H2534

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2534 matches the Hebrew חֵמָה (ḥēmâ),
which occurs 124 times in 117 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Isa 34:2–Eze 22:22)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:25 - Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
It has set him on fire all around,
Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:13 - And you forget the LORD your Maker,
Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth;
You have feared continually every day
Because of the fury of the oppressor,
When he has prepared to destroy.
And where is the fury of the oppressor?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Awake, awake!
Stand up, O Jerusalem,
You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD
The cup of His fury;
You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling,
And drained it out.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:20 - Your sons have fainted,
They lie at the head of all the streets,
Like an antelope in a net;
They are full of the fury of the LORD,
The rebuke of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - Thus says your Lord,
The LORD and your God,
Who pleads the cause of His people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
The cup of trembling,
The dregs of the cup of My fury;
You shall no longer drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:18 - According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,
Fury to His adversaries,
Recompense to His enemies;
The coastlands He will fully repay.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:3 - “I have trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me.
For I have trodden them in My anger,
And trampled them in My fury;
Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
And I have stained all My robes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:5 - I looked, but there was no one to help,
And I wondered
That there was no one to uphold;
Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:6 - I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,
Made them drunk in My fury,
And brought down their strength to the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 - For behold, the LORD will come with fire
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And His rebuke with flames of fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD,
And take away the foreskins of your hearts,
You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Lest My fury come forth like fire,
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD.
I am weary of holding it in.
“I will pour it out on the children outside,
And on the assembly of young men together;
For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
The aged with him who is full of days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You,
And on the families who do not call on Your name;
For they have eaten up Jacob,
Devoured him and consumed him,
And made his dwelling place desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 - Shall evil be repaid for good?
For they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember that I stood before You
To speak good for them,
To turn away Your wrath from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5 - “I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - ‘O house of David! Thus says the LORD:

“Execute judgment in the morning;
And deliver him who is plundered
Out of the hand of the oppressor,
Lest My fury go forth like fire
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:19 - Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:23 - Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD
Goes forth with fury,
A continuing whirlwind;
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:31 - ‘For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; so I will remove it from before My face
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:37 - ‘Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places[fn] with the dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury, all for whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - “It may be that they will present their supplication before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘As My anger and My fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - ‘So My fury and My anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.’
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 - Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD has fulfilled His fury,
He has poured out His fierce anger.
He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:14 - So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:13 - ‘Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - ‘So it[fn] shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - ‘He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:8 - Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury,
And spend My anger upon you;
I will judge you according to your ways,
And I will repay you for all your abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:18 - “Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:15 - “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - “And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:42 - “So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - But she was plucked up in fury,
She was cast down to the ground,
And the east wind dried her fruit.
Her strong branches were broken and withered;
The fire consumed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - “But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, ‘I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’;[fn] and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to observe My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’;[fn] but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:33 - As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - “I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:17 - “I also will beat My fists together,
And I will cause My fury to rest;
I, the LORD, have spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20 - As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:22 - ‘As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out My fury on you.’ ”

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