Scorch, Scorching
Scorch, Scorching
“to scorch” (from kauma, “heat”), is used (a) of seed that had not much earth, Mat 13:6; Mar 4:6; (b) of men, stricken retributively by the sun’s heat, Rev 16:8-9.
“burning heat” (akin to kaio, “to burn”), is translated “scorching heat” in Mat 20:12 (AV, “heat”); Luk 12:55 (ditto); in Jam 1:11, RV, “scorching wind” (AV, “burning heat”), here the reference is to a hot wind from the east (cp. Job 1:19). See HEAT. In the Sept., Job 27:21; Jer 18:17; Jer 51:1; Eze 17:10; Eze 19:12; Hos 12:1; Hos 13:15; Jon 4:8.