חֱמָא
anger
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2528 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 3:13 וַ/חֲמָ֔ה conj + n c fs Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
- Daniel 3:19 חֱמָ֗א n c fs 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.
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.
“anger” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חמא (chĕmâʼ). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. Its earliest occurrence is Daniel 3:13. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2528 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.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 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: Fury 2×
- American Standard Version: Fury 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Furious 1×, Rage 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Furious 1×, Rage 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2528 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2528 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2528 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2528 across 2 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.
- anger, rage
Word origin
Derived from חמה (chêmâh) (H2534) — wrath.
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.
חֲמִי
- (Arab. ḥama tueri) [to surround, guard, v. חוֹמָה,] to observe, see (in Y. dialect). Targ. Y. Gen. I, 4 (O. חזא); a. v. fr.—Targ. Prov. XXIII, 33 Ms. (ed. ויחַוְור׳).—Y. Peah III, 17ᵈ bot. אתא חמי (= תא חזי, h. בא וראה) come and see. Gen. R. s. 14 דאת חָמֵי לאפויי וכ׳ (not דאתח׳) that thou shalt see his face in the hereafter; Midr. Till. to Ps. II; Yalk. ib. 621 חמוי (corr. acc.). Ib. חַמְתֵיה (fr. חמה) he saw him. Pesik. Eth Korb. p. 57ᵇ (v. Bub. note 15) חַמְתִי אכיל חַמְתִי שתי did he (Moses) see me (the Lord) eat &c.?; Yalk. Num. 776 חַמְתֵיה וכ׳ did he see Him &c.?; a. fr.—Part. pass. חֲמֵי (v. חֲזִי) fit, worthy. Targ. Ps. XV, 1. Ib. LVIII, 2 (ed. חֲמִי); a. fr.—Fem. חַמְיָא. Targ. Y. Ex. XXII, 16.
- 1. (followed by (followed by מ־, cmp. סור) to turn (the eye) from. Targ. Prov. XXVIII, 27 (Ar. מהמי, h. text מעלים, v. Syr. המא P. Sm. 1017).
- 2. to cause to see, to show. Targ. Y. Gen. XLI, 28; a. e.—Lam. R. to I, 1 ואַחְמִין ליה וכ׳ and showed him a measure full of denars. Ib. רבתי (חד כות׳ 1) דכל עמא מַחְמִין לי וכ׳ that all people point at me with their fingers.
- same. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ bot.; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ bot. חַמֵּי (לה) לי let me see it (the tooth).
- to be seen, to appear. Targ. Y. Gen. VIII, 5; a. fr.—[Targ. Ps. XLII, 3 אִתַּחֲמֵי Ms. (Ittaf.) I shall appear before (h. text אֵרָאֶה, Var. a. ed. אֶחְמֵי)].—M. Kat. 25ᵇ אִתְחֲמִיאוּ וכ׳ stars were seen in day time. Y. Peah VIII, end, 21ᵇ דחמי ולא מִתְחֲמֵי He who sees but cannot be seen. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joḥ. 1) מִתְחַמְאִין, v. מַשְׁתָּיֵי; a. e.
חָמָא I
- Targ. Gen. XXXVIII, 13 חָמוּיִיךְ (ed. Berl. חֲ׳; oth. חָמוּךְ). Targ. O. ib. 25 חֲמוּהָא. Targ. O. Ex. XVIII, 2 חֲמוּהִי ed. Berl. (oth. חָ׳, Y. חָמוֹי); a. e.—Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ bot. חמוי. B. Mets. 74ᵇ בי חַמְוֵה in the house of his daughter’s father-in-law. Kidd. 12ᵇ; Yeb. 52ᵃ חמוה his father-in-law. Ib. 117ᵇ חֲמוּהָ her father-in-law; a. fr.
חָמָא II
- Ḥama, name of several Amoraim. Y. Nidd. III, 50ᶜ bot. R. Ḥ., father of R. Hoshaya.—Y. Peah VIII, 21ᵇ top; Y. Shek. V, 49ᵃ bot.; a. e. (v. Fr. M’bo, p. 85ᵇ).—Ib. 49ᵇ; Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵃ; B. Mets. 86ᵇ, a. fr. R. Ḥ. bar Ḥănina.—B. Kam. 99ᵇ; Y. Kidd. III, 64ᵈ, a. fr. R. Ḥ. bar Gurya.—Y. Erub. VII, 23ᶜ; Bab. Erub. 65ᵇ bot. Ms. M. (ed. חנינא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) R. Ḥ. bar Joseph.—Y. Kil. VIII, 31ᶜ top, a. fr. R. Ḥ. bar Ukba.
חֲמָא
- to see, v. חמי.
חֵמָא
- , anger. Dan. III, 13; 19. e.g. Daniel 3:13
חַמָּא
- (חמם; cmp. חַמָּם) radish. Ab. Zar. 28ᵇ bot. ח׳ לחמה Ms. M. a. Ar. (ed. חַמָּה) radishes are good for fever. Pes. 116ᵃ קפא דחסא ח׳ וכ׳ against the injurious effects of lettuce apply radishes &c.
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 2 distinct written forms H2528 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/חֲמָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 3:13 | 1 |
| חֱמָ֗א | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 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.
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