זַעַף
zaʻaph · H2197 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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rage
State in which humans are exceedingly angry to the extent that it is visible in their appearance
Examples2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at the same time.
2 Chronicles 28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has handed them over to you, and you have killed them in a rage which has even reached heaven.
Proverbs 19:12 A king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- מֶלֶךְking 1
- אַףanger, nose 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נַהַםroaring 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 5
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- רֹגֶז rôgez · H7267 · turmoil, excitement, anger
- Both words denote strong emotion, including rage, wrath and indignation, and can substitute for each other in contexts of anger.
- קֶצֶף qetseph · H7110 · anger, wrath, splinter
- Both words denote anger and wrath; they overlap in the senses "indignation" and "wrath."
- חָרוֹן chârôwn · H2740 · withered, dry, anger
- Both words are nouns for anger and wrath, describing intense divine or human fury.
- זַעַם zaʻam · H2195 · anger, wrath
- Both denote intense anger—indignation and rage—describing overlapping states of wrath that could substitute for one another.
- עֶבְרָה ʻebrâh · H5678 · wrath, anger, fury
- Both words denote strong anger or wrath, and both include the senses "rage" and "wrath."
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὀργή orgḗ · G3709 · anger, fury, to punish
- Greek ὀργή (orgḗ, G3709) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew זַעַף (zaʻaph, H2197), both denoting intense anger or wrath, with ὀργή functioning as the direct translation equivalent across Testament boundaries.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Angry002001002002
- זַעַף denotes rage or wrath, as Asa is enraged at the seer and imprisons him, and as a fierce anger against Judah is described reaching to heaven.
- Unsteady002001001067
- The word's intensity conveys an agitated, unsettled fury, a rage that shakes and disturbs.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2197. zaaph זַ֫עַף noun masculine storming, raging, rage (in poetry and late) — ׳ז…
זַ֫עַף noun masculine storming, raging, rage (in poetry and late) — ׳ז absolute 2Ch 16:10; 2Ch 28:9; construct Isa 30:30 Isa 30:2t.; suffix זַעְמּוֺ Jon 1:15; —
1 rage of king, leading to violence Pro 19:12 (|| כַּכְּפִיר נַהַם), 2Ch 16:10 (׳בְּ עַלזֿאת עִמּוֺ; || כעס), 2Ch 28:9; ׳ז אַף Isa 30:30 raging of anger (of ׳י); ׳ז ׳י Mic 7:9.
2 raging of sea Jon 1:15.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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