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Lexicon :: Strong's H639 - 'ap̄

Aa
אַף
Transliteration
'ap̄
Pronunciation
af
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 5 / 6 (Jer 4:8–Dan 11:20)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 -

“For this, I gird myself with sackcloth,

Lament and wail;

For the burning anger H639 of Yahweh

Has not turned back from us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I saw, and behold, [fn]the fruitful orchard was a wilderness,

And all its cities were torn down

Before Yahweh, before His burning anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My anger H639 and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:24 -

Discipline me, O Yahweh, but with justice;

Not with Your anger H639, lest You [fn]bring me to nothing.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 -

“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;

They have strained themselves [fn]to no profit.

But be ashamed of your produce

Because of the burning anger H639 of Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:14 -

“Then I will cause your enemies to pass [fn]it over

Into a land you do not know,

For a fire has been kindled in My anger H639;

It will burn upon you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15 -

You who know, O Yahweh,

Remember me, take notice of me,

And take vengeance for me on my persecutors.

Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;

Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:4 -

And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance

That I gave you;

And I will make you serve your enemies

In the land which you do not know,

For you have kindled a fire in My anger H639

Which will burn forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 -

Yet You, O Yahweh, know

All their [fn]deadly counsel against me;

Do not atone for their iniquity

Or blot out their sin from before You.

But may they be [fn]overthrown before You;

Deal with them in the time of Your anger H639!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5 - “I Myself will war against you with an outstretched hand and a strong arm, even in anger H639 and wrath and great indignation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:20 -

“The anger H639 of Yahweh will not turn back

Until He has done and established the purposes of His heart;

In the last days you will clearly understand it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 -

And the peaceful pastures are made silent

Because of the burning anger H639 of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 -

“He has forsaken His hiding place like the lion;

For their land has become an object of horror

Because of the burning desire of [fn]the oppressor

And because of His burning anger H639.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:24 -

The burning anger H639 of Yahweh will not turn back

Until He has done and until He has established

The intent of His heart;

In the last days you will understand this.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:31 - “Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger H639 and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:37 - “Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have banished them in My anger H639, in My wrath, and in great indignation; and I will cause them to return to this place and make them inhabit it in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have struck down in My anger H639 and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their evil:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:7 - “Perhaps their supplication will [fn]come before Yahweh, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger H639 and the wrath that Yahweh has spoken against this people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 -

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger H639 and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - ‘Therefore My wrath and My anger H639 were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a waste place and a desolation as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 -

‘So I will [fn]shatter Elam before their enemies

And before those who seek their lives;

And I will bring calamity upon them,

Even My burning anger H639,’ declares Yahweh,

‘And I will send out the sword after them

Until I have consumed them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:45 -

“Come forth from her midst, My people,

And each of you escape with his life

From the burning anger H639 of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:3 - For through the anger H639 of Yahweh this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 -

Lamedh

“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?

Look and see if there is any [fn]pain like my [fn]pain

Which was dealt severely to me,

Which Yahweh grieved me with on the day of His burning anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:1 -

Aleph

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion

With a cloud in His anger H639!

He has cast from heaven to earth

The beauty of Israel,

And has not remembered the footstool of His feet

In the day of His anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 -

Gimel

In [fn]hot anger H639 He has cut in pieces

[fn]All the strength of Israel;

He has turned back His right hand

From before the enemy.

And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire

Devouring round about.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 -

Vav

And He has violently treated His [fn]tabernacle like a garden booth;

He has brought His appointed [fn]meeting place to ruin.

Yahweh has caused to be forgotten

The appointed time and sabbath in Zion,

And He has spurned king and priest

In the indignation of His anger H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 -

Shin

On the ground in the streets

Lie young and old;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of Your anger H639;

You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22 -

Tav

You called as in the day of an appointed time

My terrors on every side;

And there was no one who escaped or survived

In the day of Yahweh’s anger H639.

Those whom I [fn]gave birth to and reared,

My enemy consumed them.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43 -

Samekh

You have covered Yourself with anger H639

And pursued us;

You have killed and have not spared.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 -

You will pursue them in anger H639 and destroy them

From under the heavens of Yahweh!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 -

Kaph

Yahweh has spent His wrath;

He has poured out His burning anger H639;

And He has kindled a fire in Zion

Which has devoured its foundations.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 -

Resh

The breath of our nostrils H639, the anointed of Yahweh,

Was captured in their pits,

Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow

We shall live among the nations.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:13 -

‘Thus My anger H639 will be spent, and I will cause My wrath against them to be at rest, and I will be [fn]appeased; then they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - ‘So [fn]it will be a reproach, a reviling, a chastisement, and a desecration to the nations who are all around you when I execute judgments against you in anger H639, wrath, and wrathful reproofs. I, Yahweh, have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:3 - ‘Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger H639 against you; I will judge you according to your ways and put all your abominations upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:8 - ‘Now it is near when I will pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger H639 against you and judge you according to your ways and put on you all your abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations which they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger still more? For behold, they are sending forth the twig to their nose H639.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will make a stormy wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger H639 a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:12 - “I also put a ring in your nose H639, earrings in your ears, and a splendid crown on your head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - “But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; each one did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them, to [fn]spend My anger H639 against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to do My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; they profaned My sabbaths. So I said I would pour out My wrath on them, to spend My anger H639 against them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20 - ‘As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger H639 and in My wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - ‘And I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose H639 and your ears; and your [fn]survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your [fn]survivors will be consumed by the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:14 - “I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger H639 and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:11 - therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will deal with you according to your anger H639 and according to your jealousy which you dealt with them because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:18 - “And it will be in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh, “that My wrath will mount up in My anger H639.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - by putting their threshold by My threshold and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have done. So I have consumed them in My anger H639.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:16 - “O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteousness, let now Your anger H639 and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:20 -

“Then in his place one will stand who will have an [fn]oppressor pass through the [fn]Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger H639 nor in battle.


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