Lexical Definition

‎כָּמַר‎ kâmar (kaw-mar') to grow warm ^H:V
a primitive root

be black, be kindled, yearn.

• properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e. (by implication) to shrivel (as with heat)
• figuratively, to be deeply affected with passion (love or pity)

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

See Greek: συστρέφω · ταράσσω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎כָּמַר‎] verb Niph`al grow warm and tender, be or grow hot (Late Hebrew id. Pi`el heat fruit in the ground, making it ripe, over-ripe, tender; Aramaic ‎כְּמַר‎ id., and more generally make warm (one's flesh, or food); compare kemr, fermentation, etc., in modern Syria Wetzst^{ZPV xiv (1891), 6}) —

Niph`al Perfect 3 plural ‎נִכְמְרוּ‎ Gen 43:30 + 2 t., ‎נִכְמָ֑רוּ‎ Lam 5:10 —

1. grow warm and tender, figurative, subject ‎רחמים‎; ‎׳‎‎רַחֲמָיו אֶלאָֿחִיונ‎ Gen 43:30 (J), so ‎רַחֲמֶיהָ עַלבְּֿנָהּ‎ ‎׳‎‎נ‎ 1Kgs 3:26 (‎רַחֲמָ֑י‎ We) ‎נִחוּמָ֑י‎ ‎׳‎‎יַחַד נ‎ Hos 11:8 (|| ‎עָלַי לִבִּינֶהְפַּךְ‎).

2. be or grow hot, ‎׳‎‎עוֺרֵנוּ כְתַנּוּר נ‎‎׳‎‎מִפְּנֵי וגו‎ Lam 5:10 our skin has become hot like a furnace, because of the famine.

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