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Lexicon :: Strong's H639 - 'ap̄

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אַף
Transliteration
'ap̄
Pronunciation
af
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 133a

Strong’s Definitions

אַף ʼaph, af; from H599; properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire:—anger(-gry), before, countenance, face, forebearing, forehead, (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, × worthy, wrath.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x

The KJV translates Strong's H639 in the following manner: anger (172x), wrath (42x), face (22x), nostrils (13x), nose (12x), angry (4x), longsuffering (with H750) (4x), before (2x), countenance (1x), forbearing (1x), forehead (1x), snout (1x), worthy (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x
The KJV translates Strong's H639 in the following manner: anger (172x), wrath (42x), face (22x), nostrils (13x), nose (12x), angry (4x), longsuffering (with H750) (4x), before (2x), countenance (1x), forbearing (1x), forehead (1x), snout (1x), worthy (1x).

  1. nostril, nose, face

  2. anger

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַף ʼaph, af; from H599; properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire:—anger(-gry), before, countenance, face, forebearing, forehead, (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, × worthy, wrath.
STRONGS H639: Abbreviations
I. אַף 277 noun masculineGenesis 30:2 nostril, nose, face, anger (Assyrian appu, face Floodiii. 27, 29 compare Hpt KAT2Gloss, Arabic أَنْفً, Ethiopic አንፍ፡ nose; Aramaic aePAf  , אֲנְפִּין face) — absolute Psalm 78:21 +; construct Genesis 27:45 +; suffix אַפּי Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; du אַפַּים Proverbs 14:17 +; אַפָּיו Genesis 2:7 + etc.; — In Hexateuch J E (Joshua 7:1 P? Joshua 23:16 D?).
1. nostril, as organ of breathing Genesis 2:7; Genesis 7:22; Job 27:3 compare Numbers 11:20; 2 Samuel 22:9 = Psalm 18:9 compare Isaiah 65:5; Isaiah 2:22; Lamentations 4:20; Ezekiel 38:18 (strike out Co) Amos 4:10; אַפֶּיךָ רוּחַ (of י׳) i.e. wind Exodus 15:8; compare אַפּוֹ רוּחַ נִשְׁמַת 2 Samuel 22:16 = Psalm 18:16 (see also below 3); nose singular Cant 7:5, 9; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 23:25; Proverbs 30:33 (where play upon different meaning of אַף & אפַּיִם):
(a) as organ of smelling Deuteronomy 33:10; Psalm 115:6;
(b) as place of ring for ornament Genesis 24:47; Isaiah 3:21; Ezekiel 16:12;
(c) as place of ring or hook for captive 2 Kings 19:28 = Isaiah 37:29; for beasts, e.g. swine Proverbs 11:22; hippopotamus Job 40:24; crocodile Job 40:26 [Job 41:2].
2. Du face (especially in phrase אַרְצָה אַפַּיִם) Genesis 19:1; Genesis 42:6; Genesis 48:12; Numbers 22:31; 1 Samuel 20:41; 1 Samuel 24:9; 1 Samuel 25:41; 1 Samuel 28:14; 2 Samuel 14:4, 33; 2 Samuel 18:28; 2 Samuel 24:20; 1 Kings 1:23, 31; Isaiah 49:23; 1 Chronicles 21:21; 2 Chronicles 7:3; 20:18; Nehemiah 8:6 also Genesis 3:19;אַפּוֹ גֹּבַהּ pride of his countenance Psalm 10:4; לְאַפֵּי before, local sense (compare לִפְנֵי) 1 Samuel 25:23; אַפָּ֑יִם 1 Samuel 1:5 read אֶפֶס Greek Version of the LXX We Dr (which see).
3. mostly anger, human Genesis 27:45; Genesis 49:6, 7 + (45 times); oftener divine Exodus 32:12; Deuteronomy 9:19; 2 Kings 24:20 + (177 times); often subject חָרָה (וַיִּ֫חַר etc.) his anger was kindled Genesis 30:2; Genesis 39:19; Exodus 4:14; Exodus 22:23; Exodus 32:10, 11 +; in various combinations, especially חֲרוֺן אַף fierceness of anger Exodus 32:12; Numbers 25:4; Numbers 32:14 +; compare חֳרִי־אָף 1 Samuel 20:34; בַּעַל־אַף Proverbs 22:24 one given to anger, etc.; אַפַּיִם אֶרֶךְ slow to anger Exodus 34:6; Numbers 14:18; Nehemiah 9:17 + 7 times of God; Proverbs 14:29; Proverbs 15:18; Proverbs 16:32; Proverbs 25:15 of man.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H600.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:7; 2:7; 3:19; 7:22; 19:1; 24:47; 27:45; 27:45; 30:2; 30:2; 39:19; 42:6; 48:12; 49:6; 49:7

Exodus

4:14; 15:8; 22:23; 22:23; 32:10; 32:11; 32:12; 32:12; 34:6

Numbers

11:20; 14:18; 22:31; 25:4; 32:14

Deuteronomy

9:19; 33:10

Joshua

7:1; 23:16

1 Samuel

1:5; 20:34; 20:41; 24:9; 25:23; 25:41; 28:14

2 Samuel

14:4; 14:33; 18:28; 22:9; 22:16; 24:20

1 Kings

1:23; 1:31

2 Kings

19:28; 24:20

1 Chronicles

21:21

2 Chronicles

7:3; 20:18

Nehemiah

8:6; 9:17

Job

27:3; 40:24; 41:2

Psalms

10:4; 18:9; 18:16; 78:21; 115:6

Proverbs

11:22; 14:17; 14:29; 15:18; 16:32; 22:24; 25:15; 30:33

Song of Songs

7:5; 7:9

Isaiah

2:22; 3:21; 37:29; 49:23; 65:5

Lamentations

4:20

Ezekiel

8:17; 16:12; 23:25; 38:18

Amos

4:10

H639

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Strong's Number H639 matches the Hebrew אַף ('ap̄),
which occurs 276 times in 269 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 6 (Jer 4:8–Dan 11:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger H639 of the LORD is not turned back from us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger H639 and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24 - O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, H639 lest thou bring me to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger H639 of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:14 - And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, H639 which shall burn upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15 - O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: H639 know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:4 - And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, H639 which shall burn for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 - Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5 - And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, H639 and in fury, and in great wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:20 - The anger H639 of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 - And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger H639 of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:24 - The fierce anger H639 of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:31 - For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger H639 and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:37 - Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, H639 and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger H639 and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger H639 and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger H639 and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Wherefore my fury and mine anger H639 was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 - For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, H639 saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:45 - My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger H639 of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:3 - For through the anger H639 of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:1 - How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, H639 and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - He hath cut off in his fierce anger H639 all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger H639 the king and the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; H639 thou hast killed, and not pitied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22 - Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger H639 none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43 - Thou hast covered with anger, H639 and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 - Persecute and destroy them in anger H639 from under the heavens of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, H639 and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - The breath of our nostrils, H639 the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:13 - Thus shall mine anger H639 be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger H639 and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:3 - Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger H639 upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:8 - Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger H639 upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, H639 and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:12 - And I put a jewel on thy forehead, H639 and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger H639 against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger H639 against them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20 - As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger H639 and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose H639 and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:14 - And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger H639 and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:11 - Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, H639 and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:18 - And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. H639

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:16 - O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger H639 and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:20 - Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, H639 nor in battle.

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