תַּחָרָה

ta.cha.rah

to contend

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Strong’s H8474Verb2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Jeremiah2

Translated as

will you compete1

are competing1

In the text

Jeremiah 12:5תְּתַחֲרֶה
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חָרָה vb. burn, be kindled, of anger

Qal

1. of man

2. of God

Niph. be angry with

Hiph. burned with zeal (?) in repairing; and kindled his anger against me

Hithp. heat oneself in vexation.—The foll. forms are somewhat dub.: how canst thou hotly contend (in a race) with the horses?; because thou strivest eagerly (to excel) in cedar

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.