Word study

Heat

4 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: heat, heated. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “heat” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • חֹם chômheattranslated this way 7 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H2527Noun  ·  Translated: heat 7, hot 2, hottest part 1

    Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

    2 Samuel 4:5 Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.

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  • חֹרֶב chôrebdryness, drought, heattranslated this way 6 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H2721Noun  ·  Translated: heat 3, dry 3, drought 2

    Genesis 31:40 As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

    Isaiah 4:6 a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

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  • יָחַם yâchambe hottranslated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H3179Verb  ·  Translated: heat 2, mated 1, breed 1, breeding 1

    Genesis 30:38 Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

    Genesis 30:41 Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

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  • חָמַם châmambe or become warmtranslated this way 2 times of its 20 uses · Strong’s H2552Verb  ·  Translated: warm 4, keep warm 3, grew hot 2, hot 2

    Job 6:17 but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

    Jeremiah 51:39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • καύσων kaúsōna scorching heat, hot windtranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G2742Noun  ·  Translated: scorching heat 2, hot 1

    Matthew 20:12 ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

    James 1:11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

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  • καῦμα kaûmaburning heat, heattranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G2738Noun  ·  Translated: scorching heat 1, heat 1

    Revelation 7:16 ‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

    Revelation 16:9 And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

What the Bible says about heat: passages by topic →

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.