חֵמָה (ḥēmâ) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning heat. It appears
124 times
in 20 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H2534).
Also rendered
rage
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 860a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 860a)heat, rage; fever, venom, poison; burning anger; anger, curdled milk, cheese; bottles, hot displeasure, furious, furiously, indignation, wrath, wrathful, butter
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
חֵמָהnoun, feminine: heat, rage
1.heat
a.fever
b.venom, poison
2.burning anger, rage
a.of man
a.of God
Strong's H2534חֵמָה: heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever) KJV:anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(-ful). See H2529.
Strong's H2529חֶמְאָה: curdled milk or cheese KJV:butter.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 860: יָחַםyāḥam — be hot, conceive; get heat, be warm