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Strong's #8273 - שָׁרָב
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1) burning or scorching heat, parched ground
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2880) brs (סהרב ShRB) AC: ? CO: Mirage AB: ?: The heat from the sun causing waves over the ground to appear like water.
Nm) brs (סהרב ShRB) - Mirage: KJV (2): parched, heat - Strongs: H8273 (שָׁרָב)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 burning heat;
2 parched ground; — only absolute: וָשָׁ֑מֶשׁ׳וְלֹא יַ כֵּם שׁ Isaiah 49:10; of ground, ׳הַשּׁ Isaiah 35:7 ("" צִמָּאוֺן).
שָׁרָב m.
(1) heat of the sun, Isaiah 49:10 hence
(2) a phenomenon frequent in the desert of Arabia and Egypt, and sometimes also observed in the southern parts of Russia and France (Arabic سراب Kor. xxiv. 39; French, le mirage; Germ. Kimmung, Spiegelung); it consists in this, that the desert, either the whole or in part, appears like a sea or a lake, so that even the most skilful travellers are sometimes deceived, see Erdmann and Frähn in Gilbert’s Annales Phys. t. xxviii, page 1, and my Comment. on Isaiah 35:7. Hence light is thrown upon the words, Isaiah loc. cit. הָיָה הַשָּׁרָב לַאֲגָם “the desert which assumes the appearance of water shall be changed into a lake” (into real water).
