1. burning, fierce heat (of anger) — The masculine noun חֳרִי meaning 'burning, heat, fierceness,' used exclusively in the construct phrase חֳרִי אַף 'burning of anger / fierce anger.' This is a single lexical sense appearing in all 6 biblical occurrences: of Moses' anger (Exod 11:8), Jonathan's anger (1 Sam 20:34), the army of Ephraim (2 Chr 25:10), God's fierce anger (Deut 29:24; Isa 7:4; Lam 2:3). The prepositional variants בָּחֳרִי 'in the heat of' are inflectional, not semantic, differences. Multilingual evidence is uniform: Arabic حُمُوِّ/اشتِعَالِ (heat/burning), German burning/heat, Korean 타오르는/격노하여 (burning/raging), Spanish ardor de (heat of), Hindi जलते/भड़कते (burning/blazing). All clusters represent identical semantics: the burning intensity of anger or wrath. 6×
AR["بِ-حُمُوِ","بِاشتِعَالِ-","بِحُمُوِّ","بِـ-حُمُوِّ-","حَمِيَّةُ"]·ben["ক্রোধের-","জ্বলন","জ্বলন্ত-","তীব্র-","প্রচণ্ড"]·DE["[בחרי]","[בחרי]","burning-von","in-heat-von","in-heat-von-"]·EN["at-fierce-","burning-of","in-burning-of-","in-fierce","in-heat-of","in-heat-of-"]·FR["[בחרי]","[בחרי]","brûlant-de","dans-heat-de","dans-heat-de-"]·heb["ב-חורי-","ב-חרי","חורי"]·HI["जलते","जलन","जलन-","भड़कते-","भड़के-","भरे-हुए-"]·ID["dalam-nyala","dalam-nyala-","dalam-panas","dengan-menyala-","karena-kobaran-","nyala"]·IT["[בחרי]","burning-di","in-calore-di","in-heat-di-"]·jav["ing-murka-ingkang-murub","ing-murkanipun-","kanthi-murka-","mawi-bebendunipun-","murub","ngangkatipun-"]·KO["맹렬함(접)","에-격노하여","에-분노","타오르는-것-에서","타오르는-중에","타오름-에-"]·PT["ardor-de","em-ardor-de","em-ardor-de-","em-calor-de-"]·RU["в-горении-","в-пылающем","в-пылу-","в-ярости-","сила"]·ES["ardor-de","en-ardor-de","en-ardor-de-","en-el-ardor-de"]·SW["katika-hasira","kwa-hasira","kwa-hasira-","ukali"]·TR["hararetiyle-","kizginlik-","kızgınlıkla-","kızgınlıkta","kızgınlığı"]·urd["بھڑکے","جلتے-ہوئے","شدت","شدّت-میں","شدید","غصے-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חֳרִי n.m. burning, always חֳרִי (הָ)אַף of Moses Ex 11:8 (J); Jonathan 1 S 20:34; army of Ephraim 2 Ch 25:10; Rezin Is 7:4; of God Dt 29:23 La 2:3.