II. אַף conjunction denoting addition, especially of something greater,
also, yea (so Phoenician, Aramaic
PAx ,
אַף,
אוֺף; compare
فَ).
1. very rare in plain prose (in which
גַּם is more usual):
Genesis 40:16* (*with pronoun, as rather often) I
also in my dream,
Numbers 16:14;
Deuteronomy 2:11*;
Deuteronomy 2:20*
2 Samuel 20:14 (see Dr)
2 Kings 2:14 *
Esther 5:12; more frequently in poetry, especially as introducing emphatically a new thought
Deuteronomy 33:3,
20,
28;
1 Samuel 2:7;
Psalm 16:6;
Psalm 16:7;
Psalm 16:9;
Psalm 18:49; Psalm 65:14 they shout for joy,
yea, they sing!
Psalm 68:9;
Psalm 68:17;
Psalm 74:16;
Psalm 89:28Psalm 1;
Proverbs 22:19*
Proverbs 23:28* +; or in more elevated prose style,
Leviticus 26:16*;
Leviticus 26:24*;
Leviticus 26:28*;
Leviticus 26:41*; and +
25 times in the impassioned rhetoric of Isa
2 (
Isaiah 40:24-48:15), e.g.
Isaiah 40:24;
Isaiah 41:10,
26;
Isaiah 42:13;
Isaiah 43:7,
19;
Isaiah 46:11 yea, I have spoken, I will
also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will
also do it!
Isaiah 48:12,
15. Implying something surprising or unexpected,
even, indeed Job 14:3;
Job 15:4*.
וְאַף and also Leviticus 26:39,
40,
42,
44;
Deuteronomy 15:17;
Habakkuk 2:15;
Psalm 68:19;
1 Chronicles 8:32* =
1 Chronicles 9:38*
2 Chronicles 12:5*
Nehemiah 2:18;
Nehemiah 13:15;
and even Job 19:4 וְאַף־אָמְנָם שָׁגִיתִי and even indeed (if) I have erred... With
הֲ,
הַאַף indeed...?
really...? †
Genesis 18:13,
23 wilt thou
indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24;
Amos 2:11;
Job 34:17;
Job 40:8. In contrast to a preceding thought (expressed or implied)
but, nay (
imo)
Psalm 44:10;
Psalm 58:3; compare
Judges 5:29*.
2. (Equally in prose and poetry) with reference to a preceding sentence,
yea, à fortiori, the more so (=
how much more! after an affirm. clause; =
how much less! after a negative one):
2 Samuel 4:10f. when one told me, Saul is dead... I took hold of him and slew him...
אַף כִּי־אֲנָשִׁים רְשָׁעִים הָרְגוּ וג׳ à fortiori, how much more (should I do so when wicked men have slain a righteous person, etc.!
Ezekiel 14:21 (Ew Hi)
Ezekiel 15:5;
Proverbs 21:27 (in all these passages
כִּי =
when)
Job 4:19. So
וְאַף †
1 Samuel 23:3;
2 Kings 5:13...
וְאַף כִּי־אָמַר אֵלֶיךָ and the more (=
and how much rather), when he hath said to thee, etc. More commonly in this sense strengthened by
כִּי (q. v.), see below
אַף כִּי
2. in a question,
indeed (is it)
that...? †
Genesis 3:1 אַף כִּי־אָמַר אֱלֹהִים indeed, that God has said...? i.e. has God
really said...? (compare
הַאַף above).
See related Aramaic BDB entry
H638.
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