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In the context of the Bible, the term "heated" can refer to both physical warmth and metaphorical intensity, such as anger or fervor. The concept of heat is often used symbolically to convey various spiritual and emotional states.
Physical Heat:The Bible frequently mentions heat in the context of the natural environment. In the arid regions of the Near East, the sun's heat is a common experience. For instance, in the account of Jonah, God provides a plant to shade Jonah from the intense heat: "When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he grew faint" (
Jonah 4:8). This physical heat serves as a backdrop to Jonah's spiritual lesson, illustrating God's control over nature and His concern for human comfort.
Metaphorical Heat:1.
Anger and Conflict: The Bible often uses heat metaphorically to describe anger or conflict.
Proverbs 15:18 states, "A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms a dispute." Here, "hot-tempered" suggests a person whose anger is like a fire, quick to ignite and potentially destructive. The contrast is with the person who is "slow to anger," implying a controlled and measured response that can diffuse tension.
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Fervor and Zeal: Heat can also symbolize fervor or zeal, particularly in one's relationship with God. In
Revelation 3:15-16 , the church in Laodicea is criticized for being "lukewarm": "I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth." Here, "hot" represents spiritual fervor and commitment, while "lukewarm" suggests indifference or complacency.
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Trials and Refinement: Heat is also used to describe the process of refinement and purification. In
1 Peter 1:6-7 , the trials faced by believers are likened to the refining of gold: "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials, so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." The heat of trials serves to purify and strengthen faith, much like fire refines precious metals.
Divine Judgment:Heat is also associated with divine judgment. In the prophetic literature, God's wrath is often depicted as a consuming fire.
Isaiah 30:27-28 describes the Lord's anger as burning: "Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with His anger, and in dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire." This imagery underscores the seriousness of God's judgment against sin and rebellion.
In summary, the concept of "heated" in the Bible encompasses a range of meanings, from the literal warmth of the sun to the metaphorical heat of anger, zeal, refinement, and divine judgment. Each usage provides insight into the human condition and God's interaction with His creation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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imp. & p. p.) of Heat.
Greek
2372. thumos -- passion... passion, wrath. 2372 (from , ", getting
heated up, breathing violently,"
cf. J. Thayer) -- properly, #NAME? (intense emotion). When
...2051. erizo -- to wrangle, strive
... wrangle, strive. Cognate: 2051 -- to contend; to confront (engage) inheated
debate that results in discord (needless strife). This...
Strong's Hebrew
2552. chamam -- to be or become warm... root Definition to be or become warm NASB Word Usage became warm (1), become
heated (1), grew hot (1), heat (1), hot (6), inflame (1), keep warm (3), mated (2
...228. aza -- to make hot, heat
... Word Origin (Aramaic) a prim. root Definition to make hot, heat NASB Word
Usage heat (1),heated (1), made...hot (1). heat, hot....
1197a. baar -- to burn, consume
... 1), burn (15), burned (12), burning (13), burns (3), clean sweep (1), consume (1),
consumed (2), destroy (1), devoured (1), expelled (1),heated (1), kindle (2...
Library
The Foot-Washing.
... The upper part of the foot was thus left exposed, and necessarily becameheated
and dirty with the fine and scorching dust of the roads....
Fire on Earth
... His warmth will dissipate our foulness, and the sins that are enwrought into the
substance of our natures will exhale from theheated surface, and disappear....
Eutyches is Indignant
... Elpidius was in his way a man of note among the clergy, because, in spite of a
character entirely despicable, he was aheated and unscrupulous partisan....
The Deceitful Arts and Nefarious Practices of Marcus.
... requisite pitch of audacity, and idly as well as impudently utters some nonsense
as it happens to occur to her, such as might be expected from oneheated by an...
Psalm CXL.
... that I may attain salvation....Toiling then in this warfare, he looked back to the
grace of God; and because already he had begun to beheated and parched, he...
That it was Before Predicted that the World Would Hold us in...
... the contagion of swine's flesh; and when he had severely beaten them with whips,
and could prevail nothing, commanded iron plates to beheated, which being...
In the Desert
... He bounded forward and his fingers buried themselves in soft andheated flesh.... Far
and near only gray wastes of hills heaved inheated solitude about them....
Appendix xvii. The Ordinances and Law of the Sabbath as Laid Down...
... Hence the oven was immediately before the Sabbath only to beheated with straw or
chaff; if otherwise, the coals were to be removed or covered with ashes....
Sin Immeasurable
... Nay, I often think that scarcely can the damned in perdition know all the guilt
of their iniquity, or else even their furnace might beheated seven times hotter...
A Brief Examination of the Construction of Our Bodies from a...
... which the heat-giving substance is placed, a muscular passage (and this, by those
skilled in such matters, is called the artery) receives theheated air from...
Thesaurus
Oven (22 Occurrences)... Some were like large jars made of earthenware or copper, which were
heated inside
with wood (1 Kings 17:12; Isaiah 44:15; Jeremiah 7:18) or grass (Matthew 6:30
...Bread (433 Occurrences)
... But sometimes the bread was baked by being placed on the ground that had beenheated
by a fire, and by covering it with the embers (1 Kings 19:6). This was...
Generally (7 Occurrences)
... was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to beheated up seven...
Inflamed (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Inflame. 2. (pa) Set on fire;
enkindled;heated; congested; provoked; exasperated. 3...
Abed'nego (14 Occurrences)
... changed concerning Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat
the furnace seven times above that which it is seen to beheated; (See RSV)....
Stove (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A house or room artificially warmed orheated; a forcing house, or hothouse;
a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or...
Furnace (35 Occurrences)
... It was a large pot, narrowing towards the top. When it washeated by a fire made
within, the dough was spread over theheated surface, and thus was baked....
Heated (12 Occurrences)
...Heated (12 Occurrences). 1 Timothy 4:2 Through the false ways of men whose words
are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with aheated iron; (BBE)....
Hearth (12 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to beheated lies, or the
lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. Int....
Quench (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To cool suddenly, asheated steel, in tempering. 3. (vi) To become extinguished;
to go out; to become calm or cool. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia....
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