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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 - And in the greatness of Your excellence
You have overthrown those who rose against You;
You sent forth Your wrath;
It consumed them like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - “And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - “So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor[fn] to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:18 - “Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD nor execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Nevertheless the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:11 - “Now hear me, therefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive from your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:13 - and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives here, for we already have offended the LORD. You intend to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:10 - “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8 - “Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - “Please, let the leaders of our entire assembly stand; and let all those in our cities who have taken pagan wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of their cities, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:18 - “Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - When he is about to fill his stomach,
God will cast on him the fury of His wrath,
And will rain it on him while he is eating.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:5 - Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 - Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:24 - Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:49

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 85:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:3 - You have taken away all Your wrath;
You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:16 - Your fierce wrath has gone over me;
Your terrors have cut me off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Behold, the day of the LORD comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy its sinners from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 - Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the LORD of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth,
Lament and wail.
For the fierce anger of the LORD
Has not turned back from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness,
And all its cities were broken down
At the presence of the LORD,
By His fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - They have sown wheat but reaped thorns;
They have put themselves to pain but do not profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 - And the peaceful dwellings are cut down
Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - He has left His lair like the lion;
For their land is desolate
Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor,
And because of His 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 return until He has done it,
And until He has performed the intents of His heart.

In the latter days you will consider it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 - For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies
And before those who seek their life.
I will bring disaster upon them,
My fierce anger,’ says the LORD;
‘And I will send the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:45 - “My people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver himself 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?
Behold and see
If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the LORD has inflicted
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 fulfilled His fury,
He has poured out His fierce anger.
He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:12 - The time has come,
The day draws near.

‘Let not the buyer rejoice,
Nor the seller mourn,
For wrath is on their whole multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:14 - ‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready,
But no one goes to battle;
For My wrath is on all their multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 - I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim.
For I am God, and not man,
The Holy One in your midst;
And I will not come with terror.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6 - Who can stand before His indignation?
And who can endure the fierceness of His anger?
His fury is poured out like fire,
And the rocks are thrown down by Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 - Before the decree is issued,
Or the day passes like chaff,
Before the LORD’s fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:8 - “Therefore wait for Me,” says the LORD,
“Until the day I rise up for plunder;[fn]
My determination is to gather the nations
To My assembly of kingdoms,
To pour on them My indignation,
All My fierce anger;
All the earth shall be devoured
With the fire of My jealousy.
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