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# כָּמַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3648

**grow warm** — used 4 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

grow warm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3648/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּמַר: vb.Niph. grow warm tender, be grow hot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3648/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Niph. grow warm and tender, be or grow hot (NH id. Pi. heat fruit in the ground, making it ripe, over-ripe, tender; Aramaic כְּמַר id., and more gen. make warm (one’s flesh, or food); cf. kemr, fermentation, etc., in mod. Syria WetzstZPV xiv (1891), 6)— Pf. 3 pl. נִכְמְרוּ Gn 43:30 + 2 times, נִכְמָ֑רוּ La 5:10;— grow warm and tender, fig., subj. רחמים; נ׳ רַחֲמָיו אֶל־אָחִיו Gn 43:30 (J), so נ׳ רַחֲמֶיהָ עַל־בְּנָהּ 1 K 3:26; (רַחֲמָ֑י We) יַחַד נ׳ נִחוּמָ֑י Ho 11:8 (‖ נֶהְפַּךְ עָלַי לִבִּי). be or grow hot, עוֹרֵנוּ כְתַנּוּר נ׳ מִפְּנֵי וגו׳ La 5:10 our skin has become hot like a furnace, because of the famine.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they grew warm (1); they had grown warm (1); they have grown hot (1).

## In the verses

[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.

[Genesis 43:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.30/#tree)

וַיְמַהֵ֣ר יוֹסֵ֗ף כִּֽי־נִכְמְר֤וּ רַחֲמָיו֙ אֶל־אָחִ֔יו וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ לִבְכּ֑וֹת וַיָּבֹ֥א הַחַ֖דְרָה וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ שָֽׁמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.hurried Joseph (dm) they.grew.warm compassion(s) his to brother his and he.sought to weep and he.went to the.inner room and he.wept there (to)

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned toward his brother; and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3648.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3648/): 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).