H7570 H7570
boil, seethe—to cause bubbling through heat, literally or figuratively
This verb describes the action of boiling or making something seethe with heat. Ezekiel 24:5 uses it in the command to boil the cooking pot, part of an extended metaphor for Jerusalem's judgment. Job uses it twice: once for bowels boiling with emotional turmoil (30:27), and once for Leviathan making the deep boil like a pot (41:31). The term bridges literal cooking and metaphorical agitation.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The three uses divide between literal boiling (Ezekiel's pot) and figurative seething (Job's emotions and Leviathan's power). Spanish 'hervir' (to boil) and French 'bouillir' appear consistently. Job 30:27's description of bowels boiling 'without quiet' powerfully conveys inner turmoil, while the Leviathan passage uses boiling to illustrate the creature's fearsome ability to churn the ocean depths. 3×
AR["اغْلِيهَا", "تَغلي", "يُغْلِي"]·ben["ফুটছে", "ফুটাও", "সে-ফুটিয়ে-তোলে"]·DE["[ירתיח]", "[רתח]", "[רתחו]"]·EN["He-makes-boil", "boil"]·FR["bouillir", "ירתיח", "רתחו"]·heb["ירתיח", "רתח", "רתחו"]·HI["उबलती-हैं", "वह-उबालता-है"]·ID["Ia membuat bergolak", "bergolak", "didihkanlah"]·IT["He-makes-boil", "[רתח]", "boil"]·jav["Piyambakipun-ngedang", "godhoga", "umob"]·KO["끌여라", "끓게-한다", "끓고"]·PT["Faz-ferver", "ferve", "fervem"]·RU["заставляет-кипеть", "кипят", "кипяти"]·ES["Hace-hervir", "hierve", "hierven"]·SW["anafanya-kuchemka", "chemsha", "yanachemka"]·TR["Kaynatır", "kaynat", "kaynıyorlar"]·urd["ابلتی ہیں", "اُبال", "وہ-ابالتا-ہے"]
Related Senses
G0846 1. third-person pronoun reference (5552×)H???? 1. (4670×)H6213a 1. do, perform, act (2383×)G4160 1. do, act, perform (473×)H5221 1. Hifil: to strike in battle, smite enemies (362×)H0899b 1. garment, article of clothing (216×)H6213a 2. make, construct, fabricate (148×)H3772 1. cut a covenant / make a pact (97×)H5060 1. touch physically (Qal) (96×)H3615 1. complete a task (Piel) (85×)H3772 2. cut off / destroy (Hifil causative) (81×)H3920 1. capture, seize (Qal) (76×)H???? 12. (76×)H3772 3. be cut off / be eliminated (Niphal) (74×)H6213a 3. be done, be made (Niphal) (73×)G4160 2. make, construct, create (62×)H3847 1. Qal: put on, wear (60×)H8210 1. pour out (liquid/libation) (59×)G2440 1. garment or clothing (general) (54×)H4191 4. kill / put to death (Hifil causative) (50×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [רָתַח] vb. boil (NH id.; Ecclus 43:3 Hiph. make hot; Aramaic רְתַח, ܪܬܰܚ boil);— Pi. Imv. ms. רַתַּח causat. Ez 24:5 cause to boil, bring to boiling, c. acc. rei. Pu. Pf. 3 pl. רֻתְּחוּ Jb 30:27 my bowels have been made to boil without quiet (fig. of violent emotion). Hiph. Impf. 3 ms. יַרְתִּיחַ כַּסִּיר מְצוּלָה Jb 41:23 he (the crocod.) maketh the depth boil like the pot.