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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.
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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 1 / 6 (Gen 2:7–Deu 32:22)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22 - All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 - The two angels came to Sedom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the eretz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Betu'el, Nachor's son, whom Milkah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Ya`akov's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 - It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 - Yosef was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Yosef's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Yehudah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Par`oh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - Yosef brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6 - My soul, don't come into their council; My glory, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Ya`akov, Scatter them in Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moshe, and he said, "What about Aharon, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8 - All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Par`oh in hot anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - With the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24 - and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - Moshe begged the LORD his God, and said, "The LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Mitzrayim with great power and with a mighty hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Mitzrim speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the eretz?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moshe's anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - Aharon said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:6 - The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD! the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 - The people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD: and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 - Moshe heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moshe was displeased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Mitzrayim?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:9 - The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay down under Bil`am: and Bil`am's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31 - Then the LORD opened the eyes of Bil`am, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - Balak's anger was kindled against Bil`am, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Bil`am, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:3 - Yisra'el joined himself to Ba`al-Pe`or: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moshe, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10 - The LORD's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - The LORD's anger was kindled against Yisra'el, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - Behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - and that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah, Admah and Tzevoyim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - even all the nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest She'ol, Devours the eretz with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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