H6272

עָתַם

a.tamH:V

to burn

1) (Niphal) to be burned up, be scorched 1a) meaning uncertain

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[עָתַם] verb dubious; Niph`al Perfect 3 masculine singular נֶעְתַּם אָ֑רֶץ Isa 9:18 ( is be clogged in speech, suffocating heat, burned by heat; hence Thes scorched, but derived sense dubious; see RS^{JPhil. xiii. 61 f.}); — read perhaps נִצְּתָה (√ יָצַת) is burned up, compare RS^l.c., Krochm Kit Che^Hpt.

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