Lexicon :: Strong's H639 - 'ap̄

“By the sweat of your face

You will eat bread

Until you return to the ground,

For from it you were taken;

For you are dust,

And to dust you shall return.”

It was evening when the two angels came to Sodom. Lot was sitting at Sodom’s [[fn]city] gate. Seeing them, Lot got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

And when Joseph’s master heard the words of his wife, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger burned.

Now Joseph was the ruler over the land, and he was the one who sold [grain] to all the people of the land; and Joseph’s [half] brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

Then Judah approached him, and said, “O my lord, please let your servant say a word to you in private, and do not let your anger blaze against your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh [so I speak as if directly to him].

“O my soul, do not come into their secret council;

Let not my glory (honor) be united with their assembly [for I knew nothing of their plot];

Because in their anger they killed men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites],

And in their self-will they lamed oxen.

“With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up,

The flowing waters stood up like a mound;

The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Now the people became like those who complain and whine about their hardships, and the LORD heard it; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.

Now Moses heard the people weeping [in self-pity] throughout their families, every man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and [fn]Moses regarded their behavior as evil.

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Miriam and Aaron, and He departed.

Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand; and he bowed his head and lay himself face down.

Then Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have done nothing but bless them these three times.

‘For a fire is kindled by My anger,

And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world),

It devours the earth with its yield,

And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.