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In the context of the Bible, the term "heated" can refer to both physical warmth and metaphorical intensity, such as anger or fervor. The concept of heat is often used symbolically to convey various spiritual and emotional states.

Physical Heat:

The Bible frequently mentions heat in the context of the natural environment. In the arid regions of the Near East, the sun's heat is a common experience. For instance, in the account of Jonah, God provides a plant to shade Jonah from the intense heat: "When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he grew faint" (Jonah 4:8). This physical heat serves as a backdrop to Jonah's spiritual lesson, illustrating God's control over nature and His concern for human comfort.

Metaphorical Heat:

1. Anger and Conflict:

The Bible often uses heat metaphorically to describe anger or conflict. Proverbs 15:18 states, "A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms a dispute." Here, "hot-tempered" suggests a person whose anger is like a fire, quick to ignite and potentially destructive. The contrast is with the person who is "slow to anger," implying a controlled and measured response that can diffuse tension.

2. Fervor and Zeal:

Heat can also symbolize fervor or zeal, particularly in one's relationship with God. In Revelation 3:15-16 , the church in Laodicea is criticized for being "lukewarm": "I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth." Here, "hot" represents spiritual fervor and commitment, while "lukewarm" suggests indifference or complacency.

3. Trials and Refinement:

Heat is also used to describe the process of refinement and purification. In 1 Peter 1:6-7 , the trials faced by believers are likened to the refining of gold: "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials, so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." The heat of trials serves to purify and strengthen faith, much like fire refines precious metals.

Divine Judgment:

Heat is also associated with divine judgment. In the prophetic literature, God's wrath is often depicted as a consuming fire. Isaiah 30:27-28 describes the Lord's anger as burning: "Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with His anger, and in dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire." This imagery underscores the seriousness of God's judgment against sin and rebellion.

In summary, the concept of "heated" in the Bible encompasses a range of meanings, from the literal warmth of the sun to the metaphorical heat of anger, zeal, refinement, and divine judgment. Each usage provides insight into the human condition and God's interaction with His creation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(imp. & p. p.) of Heat.
Greek
2372. thumos -- passion
... passion, wrath. 2372 (from , ", getting heated up, breathing violently,"
cf. J. Thayer) -- properly, #NAME? (intense emotion). When ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2372.htm - 7k

2051. erizo -- to wrangle, strive
... wrangle, strive. Cognate: 2051 -- to contend; to confront (engage) in heated
debate that results in discord (needless strife). This ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2051.htm - 6k

Strong's Hebrew
2552. chamam -- to be or become warm
... root Definition to be or become warm NASB Word Usage became warm (1), become heated
(1), grew hot (1), heat (1), hot (6), inflame (1), keep warm (3), mated (2 ...
/hebrew/2552.htm - 6k

228. aza -- to make hot, heat
... Word Origin (Aramaic) a prim. root Definition to make hot, heat NASB Word
Usage heat (1), heated (1), made...hot (1). heat, hot. ...
/hebrew/228.htm - 5k

1197a. baar -- to burn, consume
... 1), burn (15), burned (12), burning (13), burns (3), clean sweep (1), consume (1),
consumed (2), destroy (1), devoured (1), expelled (1), heated (1), kindle (2 ...
/hebrew/1197a.htm - 6k

Library

The Foot-Washing.
... The upper part of the foot was thus left exposed, and necessarily became heated
and dirty with the fine and scorching dust of the roads. ...
/.../dods/the expositors bible the gospel of st john vol ii/vi the foot-washing.htm

Fire on Earth
... His warmth will dissipate our foulness, and the sins that are enwrought into the
substance of our natures will exhale from the heated surface, and disappear. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/fire on earth.htm

Eutyches is Indignant
... Elpidius was in his way a man of note among the clergy, because, in spite of a
character entirely despicable, he was a heated and unscrupulous partisan. ...
/.../chapter xxix eutyches is indignant.htm

The Deceitful Arts and Nefarious Practices of Marcus.
... requisite pitch of audacity, and idly as well as impudently utters some nonsense
as it happens to occur to her, such as might be expected from one heated by an ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xiii the deceitful arts and.htm

Psalm CXL.
... that I may attain salvation....Toiling then in this warfare, he looked back to the
grace of God; and because already he had begun to be heated and parched, he ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxl.htm

That it was Before Predicted that the World Would Hold us in ...
... the contagion of swine's flesh; and when he had severely beaten them with whips,
and could prevail nothing, commanded iron plates to be heated, which being ...
/.../cyprian/the treatises of cyprian/11 that it was before.htm

In the Desert
... He bounded forward and his fingers buried themselves in soft and heated flesh. ... Far
and near only gray wastes of hills heaved in heated solitude about them. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xix in the desert.htm

Appendix xvii. The Ordinances and Law of the Sabbath as Laid Down ...
... Hence the oven was immediately before the Sabbath only to be heated with straw or
chaff; if otherwise, the coals were to be removed or covered with ashes. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix xvii the ordinances and.htm

Sin Immeasurable
... Nay, I often think that scarcely can the damned in perdition know all the guilt
of their iniquity, or else even their furnace might be heated seven times hotter ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/sin immeasurable.htm

A Brief Examination of the Construction of Our Bodies from a ...
... which the heat-giving substance is placed, a muscular passage (and this, by those
skilled in such matters, is called the artery) receives the heated air from ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xxx a brief examination of.htm

Thesaurus
Oven (22 Occurrences)
... Some were like large jars made of earthenware or copper, which were heated inside
with wood (1 Kings 17:12; Isaiah 44:15; Jeremiah 7:18) or grass (Matthew 6:30 ...
/o/oven.htm - 15k

Bread (433 Occurrences)
... But sometimes the bread was baked by being placed on the ground that had been heated
by a fire, and by covering it with the embers (1 Kings 19:6). This was ...
/b/bread.htm - 58k

Generally (7 Occurrences)
... was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven ...
/g/generally.htm - 11k

Inflamed (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Inflame. 2. (pa) Set on fire;
enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated. 3 ...
/i/inflamed.htm - 9k

Abed'nego (14 Occurrences)
... changed concerning Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat
the furnace seven times above that which it is seen to be heated; (See RSV). ...
/a/abed'nego.htm - 10k

Stove (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse;
a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or ...
/s/stove.htm - 8k

Furnace (35 Occurrences)
... It was a large pot, narrowing towards the top. When it was heated by a fire made
within, the dough was spread over the heated surface, and thus was baked. ...
/f/furnace.htm - 22k

Heated (12 Occurrences)
...Heated (12 Occurrences). 1 Timothy 4:2 Through the false ways of men whose words
are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron; (BBE). ...
/h/heated.htm - 10k

Hearth (12 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the
lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. Int. ...
/h/hearth.htm - 15k

Quench (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering. 3. (vi) To become extinguished;
to go out; to become calm or cool. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
/q/quench.htm - 12k

Resources
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Heated (12 Occurrences)

1 Timothy 4:2
Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;
(BBE)

Numbers 31:23
And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.
(BBE)

Psalms 58:9
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
(YLT)

Isaiah 5:11
Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
(BBE)

Isaiah 44:15
Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
(WEB ASV BBE DBY NAS)

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 24:11
And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.
(BBE)

Daniel 3:19
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 3:22
Therefore, because that the word of the king is urgent, and the furnace heated exceedingly, those men who have taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego -- killed them hath the spark of the fire.
(YLT)

Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Hosea 7:7
They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
(BBE)

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