אֲזָא
to heat
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 2 times (67%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H228 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 3:19 לְ/מֵזֵ֣א לְ/מֵזְיֵֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
- Daniel 3:22 אֵזֵ֣ה Qal ptcp.pass ms Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אזא (ʼăzâʼ) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to heat.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Daniel dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. First canonically at Daniel 3:19, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H228 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be heated 1×, Hot 1×, They should heat 1×
- American Standard Version: Be heated 1×, Hot 1×, They should heat 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Heat 1×, Hot 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Heat 1×, Heated 1×, Hot 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H228 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H228 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H228 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H228 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Peal) make hot, heat
Word origin
[ אֲזָא ] vb. make hot, heat
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: unknown derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲזָא
- to kindle, v. אֲזִי.
*אָזָא
- sea-eagle (cmp. עוזא). Targ. Y. Deut. XIV, 12 Ar. (ed. בר גזא, בר גיזא; h. text עזניה).
אֲזִי
- (= אַזְעִי, v. אוּדְיָיתָא a. זִיעַ)to heat (make steam). Dan. III, 19; 22.—Targ. Is. XXXIII, 4 וַאֲזַן (Regia אֵיזִין) and they shall heat (baths, ovens) therewith (h. text מַשַּׂק = מַשַּׁק), v. זִירְקְתָא; (cmp. Ezek. XXXIX, 9). Ib. XLIV, 15 (for baking); a. e.—Y. Ter. VIII, end, 46ᶜ a bath house דאזייה וכ׳ which he had heated for seven days. Koh. R. to II, 8; a. e. דהוון אָזְיִין בהון that entertained the fires in them.—Lev. R. s. 28, end ועל מזגיה וקנחיה (read ואַזְּיֵיה Pa.) and he (Haman) went and made him sweat and cleansed him (with the scraper). e.g. Daniel 3:19
- (contr. of אתאזי) to be heated. Gen. R. s. 63 קלוון אנא דיִתְּזוּן וכ׳ I command that the bath-houses be heated. Ib. אזלון ואִתְּזוּן they went off, and the bath-houses were heated (some ed. דְּיִחֲמוּן a. אַחְמוּן).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H228 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵזֵ֣ה | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 3:22 | 1 |
| לְ/מֵזְיֵֽ/הּ | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 3:19 | 1 |
| לְ/מֵזֵ֣א | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 3:19 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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