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# זַלְעָפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2152

**raging heat** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

raging heat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2152/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַלְעָפָה: n.f. raging heat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2152/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. raging heat (on format. cf. GesLbg 863 Ol§ 196 a. 1. 2)—ז׳ ψ 119:53; pl. abs. זִלְעָפוֹת ψ 11:6; cstr. זִלְעֲפוֹת La 5:10;— of fever heat of famine ז׳ רָעָב La 5:10. of burning wind רוּח ז׳ ψ 11:6 (in fig. of י׳’s judgment, with אֵשׁ, גָּפְרִית). fig. of zeal ז׳ אֲחָזַתְנִי ψ 119:53.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] burning heat(s) (1); burning indignation (1); of burning heat(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.53/#tree)

זַלְעָפָ֣ה אֲ֭חָזַתְנִי מֵרְשָׁעִ֑ים עֹ֝זְבֵ֗י תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* burning.indignation it has.seized.me from wicked.\[people\] \[who\].forsake law (of).your

*JPS 1917:* Burning indignation hath taken hold upon me, because of the wicked that forsake Thy law.

[Lamentations 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/#tree)

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* skin our like an.oven they.have.grown.hot because of \[the\].burning.heat(s) of.hunger

*JPS 1917:* Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2152.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2152/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).