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Strong's #3648: kamar (pronounced kaw-mar')

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):--be black, be kindled, yearn.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâmar

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 993, 994, 995



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Genesis 43:30: "made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep;"
1 Kings 3:26: "the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O"
Lamentations 5:10: "Our skin was black like an oven because of famine."
Hosea 11:8: "is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together."









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