Charar means “burn” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2787 — kibotos (“ark”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2787 חָרַר (charar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. charar (khaw-rar') v. 1. to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion [a primitive root] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include burned, burning, angry, melteth, and burn. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
charar (khaw-rar') v. 1. to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion [a primitive root] KJV: be angry, burn, dry, kindle.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2787. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to scorch
Usage: 1) to burn, be hot, be scorched, be charred 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be hot, be scorched 1a2) to burn, be burned 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be scorched, be burned 1b2) to burn 1b3) to be dry, be angry 1c) (Pilpel) to cause to burn Aramaic equivalent: cha.rakh (חֲרַךְ "to singe" H2761)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render charar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
11 indexed usages in Old Testament.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2787.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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.
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.
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2787, grouped by book.
Charar (Strong's H2787) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "burn". charar (khaw-rar') v. 1. to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's H2787 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2787 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as burned, burning, angry, melteth, and burn. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.