Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BBE

BBE

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H639 - 'ap̄

Aa
אַף
Transliteration
'ap̄
Pronunciation
af
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Read the Full Entry

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 1 / 6 (Gen 2:7–Deu 32:22)

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22 - Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 - And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 - And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 - Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6 - Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8 - And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24 - And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:6 - And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 - Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 - And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:9 - And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31 - Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he went down on his face to the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:3 - So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10 - And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BBE
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
BBE
Daily Devotionals

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan