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Lexicon :: Strong's H2740 - ḥārôn

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חָרוֹן
Transliteration
ḥārôn
Pronunciation
khaw-rone'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 736a

Strong’s Definitions

חָרוֹן chârôwn, khaw-rone'; or (shortened) חָרֹן chârôn; from H2734; a burning of anger:—sore displeasure, fierce(-ness), fury, (fierce) wrath(-ful).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H2740 in the following manner: fierce (23x), fierceness (9x), wrath (6x), fury (1x), wrathful (1x), displeasure (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H2740 in the following manner: fierce (23x), fierceness (9x), wrath (6x), fury (1x), wrathful (1x), displeasure (1x).

  1. anger, heat, burning (of anger)

    1. always used of God's anger

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָרוֹן chârôwn, khaw-rone'; or (shortened) חָרֹן chârôn; from H2734; a burning of anger:—sore displeasure, fierce(-ness), fury, (fierce) wrath(-ful).
STRONGS H2740: Abbreviations
† חָרוֺן noun masculine (burning of) anger (compare LagBN 204 Anm. * *) — ח׳ Ezekiel 7:12 + 2 times; construct חֲרוֺן Numbers 25:4 + 33 times; suffix חֲרוֺנִי Ezekiel 7:14 (Co חרון), חֲרוֺגוֺ Psalm 2:5; חֲרֹנְךָ Exodus 15:7; plural suffix חֲרוֺנֶי֑ךָ Psalm 88:17; — always of God's anger (see note, below), חֲרוֺן אף Exodus 32:12; Numbers 25:4; Numbers 32:14; Joshua 7:26 (J), Deuteronomy 13:18; 1 Samuel 28:18; 2 Kings 23:26; 2 Chronicles 28:11, 13; 29:10; 30:8; Ezra 10:14; Hosea 11:9; Nahum 1:6; Zephaniah 2:2; Zephaniah 3:8; Isaiah 13:9, 13; Jeremiah 4:8, 26; Jeremiah 12:13; Jeremiah 25:37, 38; Jeremiah 30:24; Jeremiah 49:37; Jeremiah 51:45; Jonah 3:9; Psalm 69:25; Psalm 78:49; Psalm 85:4; Job 20:23; Lamentations 1:12; Lamentations 4:11; אף omitted, Exodus 15:7 (song), Nehemiah 13:18; Psalm 2:5; Ezekiel 7:12 (strike out Co), Ezekiel 7:14; plural bursts of burning anger Psalm 88:17. —
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כְּמוֺחָֿרוֺן Psalm 58:10 burning anger Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Jerome AV Bae Che; but Thes MV SS DeW Ew Ol Pe, something burning, e.g. thorns, antith. green thorns; Hengst De cooked flesh, antith. raw; Jeremiah 25:38 הַיּוֺנָה מפני ח׳ because of the fierceness of the oppressor (? AV) would then be the only use of the word of other than God's anger; here Greek Version of the LXX Targum Ew Hi Gf Ke Che Gie RV rightly read חרב oppressing sword (as Jeremiah 46:16; Jeremiah 50:16). חרון is not used in H P D2 or E (except song, Exodus 15:7) of the Hexateuch; nor in Ezekiel except Ezekiel 7:12 (strike out Co), Ezekiel 7:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

15:7; 15:7; 15:7; 32:12

Numbers

25:4; 25:4; 32:14

Deuteronomy

13:18

Joshua

7:26

1 Samuel

28:18

2 Kings

23:26

2 Chronicles

28:11; 28:13; 29:10; 30:8

Ezra

10:14

Nehemiah

13:18

Job

20:23

Psalms

2:5; 2:5; 58:10; 69:25; 78:49; 85:4; 88:17; 88:17

Isaiah

13:9; 13:13

Jeremiah

4:8; 4:26; 12:13; 25:37; 25:38; 25:38; 30:24; 46:16; 49:37; 50:16; 51:45

Lamentations

1:12; 4:11

Ezekiel

7:12; 7:12; 7:12; 7:14; 7:14; 7:14

Hosea

11:9

Jonah

3:9

Nahum

1:6

Zephaniah

2:2; 3:8

H2740

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2740 matches the Hebrew חָרוֹן (ḥārôn),
which occurs 41 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - “In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - “And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the LORD even more angry with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - and none of the condemned things[fn] are to be found in your hands. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - Over Achan they heaped up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his fierce anger. Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor[fn] ever since.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:18 - Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out his fierce wrath against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this to you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:11 - Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the LORD’s fierce anger rests on you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:13 - “You must not bring those prisoners here,” they said, “or we will be guilty before the LORD. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:10 - Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8 - Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the LORD. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:18 - Didn’t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:5 - He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 - Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:24 - Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:49

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 85:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:3 - You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:16 - Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - See, the day of the LORD is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger— to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 - Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the LORD’s fierce anger.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 - The peaceful meadows will be laid waste because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - Like a lion he will leave his lair, and their land will become desolate because of the sword[fn] of the oppressor and because of the LORD’s fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:24 - The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 - I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them, even my fierce anger,”

declares the LORD.

“I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:45 - “Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:12 - The time has come! The day has arrived! Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller grieve, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:14 - “ ‘They have blown the trumpet, they have made all things ready, but no one will go into battle, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6 - Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 - before the decree takes effect and that day passes like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the LORD’s wrath comes upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:8 - Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day I will stand up to testify.[fn] I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them— all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.
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