Dictionaries :: Scorch, Scorching

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

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.

Scorch, Scorching:

"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; 51:1; Eze 17:10; 19:12; Hsa 12:1; 13:15; Jon 4:8.