Lexical Summary zarab: to burn, scorch Original Word: זָרַבTransliteration: zarab Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-rab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to burn, scorch Meaning: to burn, scorch Strong's Concordance wax warm A primitive root; to flow away -- wax warm. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2215. zarab [זָרַב] verb only Pu`al, meaning dubious; probably (from context) be burnt, scorched — Pu`al Imperfect in relative clause, נִצְמָ֑תוּ יְזָֹֽרְבוּ בְּעֵת Job 6:17 ("" מִמְּקוֺמָם נִדְעֲכוּ בְּחֻמּוֺ), of brooks scorched and drying up ("" form of צָרַב q. v.; so Ew Di De Hoffm Kau AV RV MV; > Thes Rob-Ges who compare Arabic flow away, compare Late Hebrew זְרִיבָה; and Mich DlPr 36 f. VBm (are straitened) RVm (shrink) compare Aramaic compress, (Arabic is to make a wooden enclosure), Assyrian zarâbu, ZimBP 32 n. 56, 70, 95). |