Word study
Hot
10 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “hot”. 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 “hot” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- חָמַם châmambe or become warmtranslated this way 5 times of its 20 uses · Strong’s H2552Verb · Translated: warm 4, keep warm 3, grew hot 2, hot 2Full study and all 18 verses →
Exodus 16:21 Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
Nehemiah 7:3 And I told them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the guards are on duty, keep the doors shut and securely fastened. And appoint the residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their own homes.”
- חֹם chômheattranslated this way 2 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H2527Noun · Translated: heat 7, hot 2, hottest part 1Full study and all 9 verses →
1 Samuel 11:9 So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.
1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
- יֵם yêmwarm springtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H3222Noun · Translated: hot springs 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Genesis 36:24 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- חֳרִי chŏrîburningtranslated this way 1 time of its 6 uses · Strong’s H2750Noun · Translated: fierce 3, hot 1, outburst 1, great 1Full study and all 6 verses →
Exodus 11:8 And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.
- רֶצֶף retsepha red-hot stonetranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H7529Noun · Translated: baked over hot coals 1Full study and its 1 verse →
1 Kings 19:6 And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
- קָדִים qâdîmEast, east windtranslated this way 1 time of its 68 uses · Strong’s H6921Noun · Translated: east 42, east wind 9, east side 5, eastward 3Full study and all 63 verses →
Job 15:2 “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
- חָם châmhottranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H2525Adjective · Translated: ours was warm 1, get hot 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Job 37:17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
- גֶּחֶל gechelembertranslated this way 1 time of its 18 uses · Strong’s H1513Noun · Translated: coals 8, burning coals 4, glowing coals 2Full study and all 18 verses →
Proverbs 6:28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
- כָּמַר kâmargrow warm and tender, be or grow hottranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s H3648Verb · Translated: moved 1, yearned 1, hot 1, stirred 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- אֲזָא ăzâmake hot, heattranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H228Verb · Translated: heat 1, hot 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Daniel 3:22 The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ζεστός zestósboiling hottranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G2200Adjective · Translated: hot 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Revelation 3:15 I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
Revelation 3:16 So because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!
- καύσων kaúsōna scorching heat, hot windtranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s G2742Noun · Translated: scorching heat 2, hot 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Luke 12:55 And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.
- καυτηριάζω kautēriázōI cauterize, seartranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G2743Verb · Translated: seared with a hot iron 1Full study and its 1 verse →
1 Timothy 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
How to study a word well
- 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.
- 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.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- 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.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- 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.
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.