H3648 - כָּמַר (kâmar)

H3648 כָּמַר (kâmar) kaw-mar'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a primitive root; properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e. (by implication) to shrivel (as with heat); figuratively, to be deeply affected with passion (love or pity)

KJV Usage: be black, be kindled, yearn

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

כָּמַר (ka.mar) — to grow warm. 1) to yearn, be kindled, be black (hot), grow warm and tender, be or grow hot, become hot, become emotionally agitated 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to grow warm and tender 1a2) to be or grow hot

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

כמר (H3648)

verb · כֹּמֶר

Hot | verb nif

to be hot = process by which an object grows uncomfortably hot

LAM 5:10

Happen | verb nif

to be kindled literally: to be, become warm; hence: = state/process by which an event becomes active

GEN 43:30 · 1KI 3:26 · HOS 11:8

¹ LAM 5:10 Other possibilities: Peshitta "to shrivel up" | NRSV REB "to be black(ened)" | these option are less likely because they cannot explain lexical meaning [b] in satisfactory way

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[כָּמַר] vb. Niph. grow warm and tender, be or grow hot base