Word

חָוַר

châvar · H2357 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to grow pale

    Literally: (one's) face grows pale; hence: process by which the human face turns unusually white as a result of blood leaving the face when experiencing a deep emotion of shame

    Examples

    Isaiah 29:22 Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob will not be ashamed now, nor will his face turn pale now;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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The verb describes a face turning pale, as Belshazzar's own face grows pale with terror at the handwriting on the wall (Daniel 5:6, 5:10).
Word family 5 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2357. chavar I. [חָוַר] verb be or grow white, pale (Arabic be white, whiteness, Aramaic…
H2357. chavar
I. [חָוַר] verb be or grow white, pale (Arabic be white, whiteness, Aramaic , חֲוַר be white) — only
Qal Imperfect3masculine plural יֶחֱוָר֑וּ מָּנָיו עַתָּה וְלֹא Isa 29:22 (|| יַעֲקֹב יֵבוֺשׁ עַתָּה לֹא).
חִוָּר adjective white (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew I. [חָוַר]); — Dan 7:9 (robe).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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