In my humble opinion there is no Hebrew root which means 'to burn'.
It can just not be. The root XRR means 'disintegrate, fragment,
crumble', (as also by the action of fire), and in this sense HAR (as
well as KAR and GAR) is 'a (tall, noble) pile or heap'. In the
reverse it is XOR.
In Eccl. 10:17 BEN XORIYM is plausibly enough 'the son of nobles".
The word XERUT 'freedom, independence' is in common use now in spoken
Hebrew, and essentially means, in my opinion, 'severance of
restrictive ties'.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:50 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
XR-YM at I Kings 21: 8, 11 means “nobles”, and comes from the
Hebrew root word XRR, which means “to burn”