Lexical Definition

‎זָרַב‎ zârab (zaw-rab') to burn ^H:V
a primitive root

wax warm.

• to flow away

1) (Pual) to dry up, be warmed, be burned, be scorched

See Greek: τήκω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎זָרַב‎] verb only Pu`al, meaning dubious; probably (from context) be burnt, scorched —

Pu`al Imperfect in relative clause, ‎בְּעֵת יְזָֹֽרְבוּ נִצְמָ֑תוּ‎ Job 6:17 (|| ‎בְּחֻמּוֺ‎ ‎נִדְעֲכוּ מִמְּקוֺמָם‎), 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 Dl^{Pr 36 f.} VBm (are straitened) RVm (shrink) compare Aramaic compress, (Arabic is to make a wooden enclosure), Assyrian zarâbu, Zim^{BP 32 n. 56, 70, 95}).

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