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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
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 4 / 6 (Psa 103:8–Jer 2:35)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:8 -

Yahweh is compassionate and gracious,

Slow to anger H639 and abounding in lovingkindness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:40 -

So the anger H639 of Yahweh was kindled against His people

And He abhorred His [fn]inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:5 -

The Lord is at Your right hand;

He [fn]will crush kings in the day of His anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:6 -

They have ears, but they do not hear;

They have noses H639, but they do not smell;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:3 -

Then they would have swallowed us alive,

When their anger H639 was kindled against us;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:7 -

Though I walk in the midst of [fn]distress, You will [fn]revive me;

You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath H639 of my enemies,

And Your right hand will save me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:8 -

Heth

Yahweh is gracious and compassionate;

Slow to anger H639 and great in lovingkindness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:22 -

As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout H639

So is a beautiful woman who turns away from [fn]discretion.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:17 -

A quick-tempered H639 man acts in folly,

And a man of evil schemes is hated.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:29 -

He who is slow to anger H639 has great discernment,

But he who is [fn]quick-tempered raises up folly.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:1 -

A gentle answer turns away wrath,

But a [fn]harsh word stirs up anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:18 -

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,

But the slow to anger H639 quiets a dispute.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:32 -

He who is slow to anger H639 is better than the mighty,

And he who rules his own spirit, than he who captures a city.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:11 -

A man’s insight makes him slow to anger H639,

And it is his honor to overlook a transgression.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:14 -

A gift in secret subdues anger H639,

And a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 -

Do not befriend a man of anger H639;

And do not come along with a man of great wrath,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18 -

Lest Yahweh see it and it be evil in His eyes,

And turn His anger H639 away from him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:15 -

When one is slow to anger H639, a ruler may be persuaded,

And a soft tongue breaks the bone.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:4 -

Wrath is cruelty and anger H639 is a flood,

But who can stand before jealousy?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:8 -

Scoffers [fn]set a city aflame,

But wise men turn away anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:22 -

An angry H639 man stirs up strife,

And a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33 -

For pressing milk brings forth butter,

And pressing the nose H639 brings forth blood;

And pressing anger H639 brings forth strife.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim;

Your nose H639 is like the tower of Lebanon,

Which faces toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:8 -

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;

I will seize its fruit stalks.’

Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

And the fragrance of your [fn]breath H639 like [fn]apples,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 -

[fn]Stop regarding [fn]man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils H639;

For [fn]why should he be esteemed?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:21 - [fn]finger rings, nose H639 rings,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 -

On this account, the anger H639 of Yahweh has burned against His people,

And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.

And the mountains trembled, and their corpses [fn]lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.

For all this His anger H639 is not turned back,

But His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - and say to him, ‘Take care and stay quiet, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the burning anger H639 of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 -

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;

And they devour Israel with [fn]gaping jaws.

In spite of all this, His anger H639 does not turn back,

And His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 -

Therefore the Lord is not glad in their choice men,

Nor does He have compassion on their [fn]orphans or their widows;

For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,

And every mouth is speaking wicked foolishness.

In spite of all this, His anger H639 does not turn back,

And His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:21 -

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,

And together they are against Judah.

In spite of all this, His anger H639 does not turn back,

And His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:4 -

Nothing remains but to crouch [fn]among the captives

Or fall [fn]among those killed.

In spite of all this, His anger H639 does not turn back

And His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5 -

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger H639

And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - “For in a very little while My indignation against you will end and My anger H639 will be directed to their destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:1 -

Then you will say in that day,

“I will give thanks to You, O Yahweh;

For although You were angry with me,

Your anger H639 is turned away,

And You comfort me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:3 -

I have commanded My set apart ones,

I have even called My mighty warriors,

My [fn]proudly exulting ones,

To execute My anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 -

Behold, the day of Yahweh is coming,

Cruel, with fury and burning anger H639,

To make the land a desolation;

And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 -

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

And the earth will be shaken from its place

At the fury of Yahweh of hosts

In the day of His burning anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 -

Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,

Which had dominion over the nations in anger H639 with unrestrained persecution.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:27 -

Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from afar;

Burning is His anger H639 and heavy is His [fn]smoke;

His lips are filled with indignation

And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:30 -

And Yahweh will cause [fn]His splendid voice to be heard,

And the [fn]descending of His arm to be seen in raging anger H639,

And in the flame of a consuming fire

In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29 -

“Because of your raging against Me

And because your [fn]presumptuousness has come up to My ears,

Therefore I will put My hook in your nose H639

And My bridle in your lips,

And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:25 -

So He poured out on him the heat of His anger H639

And the fierceness of battle;

And it set him aflame all around,

Yet he did not know it;

And it burned him, but he did not set it upon his heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:9 -

“For the sake of My name I delay My anger H639,

And for My praise I restrain it for you,

In order not to cut you off.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 -

“Kings will be your guardians,

And their princesses your nurses.

They will bow down to you with their [fn]faces H639 to the earth

And lick the dust of your feet;

And you will know that I am Yahweh;

Those who hope in Me will not be put to shame.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:3 -

“I have trodden the wine trough alone,

And from the peoples there was no man with Me.

I also trod them in My anger H639

And trampled them in My wrath;

And their [fn]lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments,

And I [fn]stained all My clothes.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:6 -

“I trod down the peoples in My anger H639

And made them drunk in My wrath,

And I brought down their lifeblood to the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 -

Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,

For I am holier than you!’

These are smoke in My [fn]nostrils H639,

A fire that burns all the day.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 -

For behold, Yahweh will come in fire

And His chariots like the whirlwind,

To return His anger H639 with wrath,

And His rebuke with flames of fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35 -

Yet you said, ‘I am innocent;

Surely His anger H639 is turned away from me.’

Behold, I will enter into judgment with you

Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’


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