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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.
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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 1 / 6 (Gen 2:7–Deu 32:22)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - Then the LORD H3068 God H430 formed H3335 the man H120 of dust H6083 from the ground H127, and breathed H5301 into his nostrils H639 the breath H5397 of life H2416; and the man H120 became H1961 a living H2416 [fn]person H5315.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 -

By the sweat H2188 of your face H639

You shall eat H398 bread H3899,

Until H5704 you return H7725 to the ground H127,

Because H3588 from it you were taken H3947;

For you are dust H6083,

And to dust H6083 you shall return H7725.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22 - of all H3605 that was on the dry H2724 land H2724, all H3605 in whose H834 nostrils H639 was the breath H5397 of the spirit H7307 of life H2416, died H4191.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 -

Now the two H8147 angels H4397 came H935 to Sodom H5467 in the evening H6153 as Lot H3876 was sitting H3427 at the gate H8179 of Sodom H5467. When Lot H3876 saw H7200 them, he stood H6965 up H6965 to meet H7122 them and [fn]bowed H2331 down H2331 with his face H639 to the ground H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - “Then I asked H7592 her, and said H559, ‘Whose H4310 daughter H1323 are you?’ And she said H559, ‘The daughter H1323 of Bethuel H1328, Nahor’s H5152 son H1121, whom H834 Milcah H4435 bore H3205 to him’; and I put H7760 the ring H5141 on her nose H639, and the bracelets H6781 on her [fn]wrists H3027.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - until H5704 your brother’s H251 anger H639 [fn]against H4480 you subsides H7725 and he forgets H7911 what H834 you did H6213 to him. Then I will send H7971 word and get H3947 you from there H8033. Why H4100 should I lose H7921 you both H8147 in one H259 day H3117?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Then Jacob’s H3290 anger H639 burned H2734 against Rachel H7354, and he said H559, “Am I in H8478 the place H8478 of H8478 God H430, who H834 has withheld H4513 from you the fruit H6529 of the womb H990?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 -

Now when his master H113 heard H8085 the words H1697 of his wife H802 which H834 she spoke H1696 to him, saying H559, “[fn]This H1697 H428 is what H1697 your slave H5650 did H6213 to me,” his anger H639 burned H2734.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 -

Now Joseph H3130 was the ruler H7989 over H5921 the land H776; he was the one who sold H7666 grain H7666 to all H3605 the people H5971 of the land H776. And Joseph’s H3130 brothers H251 came H935 and bowed H2331 down H2331 to him with their faces H639 to the ground H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 -

Then Judah H3063 approached H5066 him and said H559, “Oh H994 my lord H113, may your servant H5650 please H4994 speak H1696 a word H1697 in my lord’s H113 ears H241, and [fn]do not be H2734 angry H639 H2734 with your servant H5650; for you are equal to Pharaoh H6547.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - Then Joseph H3130 [fn]took H3318 them from his knees H1290, and bowed H2331 with his face H639 to the ground H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6 -

“May my soul H5315 not enter H935 into their council H5475;

May my glory H3519 not be united H3161 with their assembly H6951;

For in their anger H639 they killed H2026 [fn]men H376,

And in their self-will H7522 they lamed H6131 [fn]oxen H7794.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 -

“Cursed H779 be their anger H639, for it is fierce H5794;

And their wrath H5678, for it is H7185 cruel H7185.

I will scatter H2505 them in Jacob H3290,

And disperse H6327 them among Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 burned H2734 against Moses H4872, and He said H559, “Is there not your brother H251 Aaron H175 the Levite H3881? I know H3045 that [fn]he speaks H1696 fluently H1696. And moreover H1571, behold H2009, he is coming H3318 out H3318 to meet H7122 you; when he sees H7200 you, he will be [fn]overjoyed H8055 H3820.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8 - “And all H3605 these H428 servants H5650 of yours will come H3381 down H3381 to me and bow H2331 themselves [fn]before me, saying H559, ‘Go H3318 out H3318, you and all H3605 the people H5971 who H834 [fn]follow H7272 you,’ and after H310 that I will go H3318 out H3318.” And he left H3318 H4480 Pharaoh H6547 in the heat H2750 of anger H639.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 -

“At the blast H7307 of Your nostrils H639 the waters H4325 were piled H6192 up,

The flowing H5140 waters H4325 stood H5324 up H5324 like H3644 a heap H5067;

The depths H8415 were congealed H7087 in the heart H3820 of the sea H3220.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24 - and My anger H639 will be kindled H2734, and I will kill H2026 you with the sword H2719, and your wives H802 shall become H1961 widows H490 and your children H1121 fatherless H3490.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - “So now H6258 leave H5117 Me alone H5117, that My anger H639 may burn H2734 against them and that I may destroy H3615 them; and I will make H6213 of you a great H1419 nation H1471.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 -

Then Moses H4872 pleaded H2470 with the LORD H3068 his God H430, and said H559, “LORD H3068, why H4100 does Your anger H639 burn H2734 against Your people H5971 whom H834 You have brought H3318 out H3318 from the land H776 of Egypt H4714 with great H1419 power H3581 and with a mighty H2389 hand H3027?

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why H4100 should the Egyptians H4714 talk H559, saying H559, ‘With evil H7451 motives He brought H3318 them out H3318, to kill H2026 them on the mountains H2022 and to destroy H3615 them from the face H6440 of the earth H127’? Turn H7725 from Your burning H2740 anger H639 and relent H5162 of doing harm H7451 to Your people H5971.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 -

And it came H1961 about H1961, as H834 soon H834 as H834 [fn]Moses approached H7126 the camp H4264, that he saw H7200 the calf H5695 and the people dancing H4246; and Moses’ H4872 anger H639 burned H2734, and he threw H7993 the tablets H3871 from his hands H3027 and shattered H7665 them to H7665 pieces H7665 [fn]at H8478 the H8478 foot H8478 of H8478 the mountain H2022.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - And Aaron H175 said H559, “Do not let the anger H639 of my lord H113 burn H2734; you know H3045 the people H5971 yourself H859, that they are [fn]prone to evil H7451.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:6 - Then the LORD H3068 passed H5674 by H5674 in front H6440 of him and proclaimed H7121, “The LORD H3068, the LORD H3068 God H410, compassionate H7349 and merciful H2587, slow H750 to anger H639, and abounding H7227 in faithfulness H2617 and [fn]truth H571;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 -

Now the people H5971 became H1961 like those who complain H596 of adversity H7451 in the ears H241 of the LORD H3068; and the LORD H3068 heard H8085 them and His anger H639 was kindled H2734, and the fire H784 of the LORD H3068 burned H1197 among them and consumed H398 some at the outskirts H7097 of the camp H4264.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 -

Now Moses H4872 heard H8085 the people H5971 weeping H1058 throughout their families H4940, each H376 one H376 at the entrance H6607 of his tent H168; and the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 became H2734 very H3966 hot H2734, and [fn]Moses H4872 was displeased H7489 H5869.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - [fn]but for a whole H3117 month H2320, until H5704 H834 it comes H3318 out H3318 of your nose H639 and [fn]makes H1961 you nauseated H2214; because H3282 H3588 you have rejected H3988 the LORD H3068 who H834 is among H7130 you and have wept H1058 before H6440 Him, saying H559, “Why H4100 did we ever H2088 leave H3318 H4480 Egypt H4714?”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - While the meat H1320 was still H5750 between H996 their teeth H8127, before H2962 it was chewed H3772, the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 was kindled H2734 against the people H5971, and the LORD H3068 struck H5221 the people H5971 with a very H3966 severe H7227 plague H4347.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:9 -

And the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 burned H2734 against them and He departed H1980.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - ‘The LORD H3068 is slow H750 to anger H639 and abundant H7227 in mercy H2617, forgiving H5375 wrongdoing H5771 and violation H6588 of His Law; but He will by H5352 no H3808 means H5352 leave H5352 the guilty unpunished H5352, inflicting H6485 the [fn]punishment H5771 of the fathers H1 on the children H1121 [fn]to the third H8029 and the fourth H7256 generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God H430 was H2734 angry H639 H2734 that he was going H1980, and the angel H4397 of the LORD H3068 took H3320 his stand H3320 in the road H1870 as an adversary H7854 against him. Now he was riding H7392 on his donkey H860, and his two H8147 servants H5288 were with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - When the donkey H860 saw H7200 the angel H4397 of the LORD H3068, she lay H7257 down H7257 under H8478 Balaam H1109; so Balaam H1109 was H2734 angry H639 H2734 and struck H5221 the donkey H860 with his staff H4731.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31 -

Then the LORD H3068 opened H1540 Balaam’s H1109 eyes H5869, and he saw H7200 the angel H4397 of the LORD H3068 standing H5324 in the way H1870 with his sword H2719 drawn H8025 in his hand H3027; and he bowed H6915 [fn]all the way H1870 to the ground H639.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 -

Then Balak’s H1111 anger H639 burned H2734 against H413 Balaam H1109, and he struck H5606 his [fn]hands H3709 together H5606; and Balak H1111 said H559 to Balaam H1109, “I called H7121 you to curse H6895 my enemies H340, but behold H2009, you have persisted H1288 in blessing H1288 them these H2088 three H7969 times H6471!

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:3 - So Israel H3478 [fn]became H6775 followers H6775 of [fn]Baal H1187 of H1187 Peor H1187, and the LORD H3068 was H2734 angry H639 H2734 with Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - And the LORD H3068 said H559 to Moses H4872, “Take H3947 all H3605 the leaders H7218 of the people H5971 and [fn]execute H3363 them [fn]in broad H5048 daylight H8121 before the LORD H3068, so that the fierce H2740 anger H639 of the LORD H3068 may turn H7725 away H7725 from Israel H3478.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10 - “So the LORD’S H3068 anger H639 burned H2734 on that day H3117, and He swore H7650, saying H559,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “So the LORD’S H3068 anger H639 burned H2734 against Israel H3478, and He made them wander H5128 in the wilderness H4057 for forty H705 years H8141, until H5704 the entire H3605 generation H1755 of those who had done H6213 evil H7451 in the sight H5869 of the LORD H3068 came H8552 to H8552 an H8552 end H8552.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - “Now behold H2009, you have risen H6965 up H6965 in H8478 your fathers’ H1 place H8478, born H8635 of sinful H2400 men H376, to add H3254 still H5750 more H5750 to the burning H2740 anger H639 of the LORD H3068 against H413 Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the LORD H3068 your God H430 who is in the midst H7130 of you is a jealous H7067 God H410; so follow Him, or H6435 else H6435 the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 your God H430 will be kindled H2734 against you, and He will [fn]wipe H8045 you off H4480 H5921 the face H6440 of the earth H127.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - “For [fn]they will turn H5493 your [fn]sons H1121 away H5493 from [fn]following H310 Me, and they will serve H5647 other H312 gods H430; then the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 will be kindled H2734 against you and He will quickly H4118 destroy H8045 you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - “For I was afraid H3025 of the anger H639 and the rage H2534 with which H834 the LORD H3068 was H7107 angry H7107 with you so as to destroy H8045 you; but the LORD H3068 listened H8085 to me that time H6471 as H1571 well H1571.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - “Otherwise, the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 will be kindled H2734 against you, and He will shut H6113 up H6113 the sky H8064 so that there will be no H3808 rain H4306, and the ground H127 will not yield H5414 its produce H2981; then you will quickly H4120 perish H6 from the good H2896 land H776 which H834 the LORD H3068 is giving H5414 you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - “Nothing H3808 H3972 at H3972 all H3972 from what H2764 is H2764 designated H2764 for H2764 destruction H2764 is to cling H1692 to your hand H3027, in H4616 order H4616 that H4616 the LORD H3068 may turn H7725 from His burning H2740 anger H639 and show H5414 mercy H7356 to you, and have H7355 compassion H7355 on H7355 you and make you increase H7235, just H834 as H834 He has sworn H7650 to your fathers H1,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - “The LORD H3068 will not be H14 willing H14 to forgive H5545 him, but rather H3588 H227 the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 and His wrath H7068 will [fn]burn H6225 against that person H376, and every H3605 curse H423 that is written H3789 in this H2088 book H5612 will lie H7257 upon him, and the LORD H3068 will wipe H4229 out H4229 his name H8034 from under H8478 heaven H8064.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - ‘All H3605 its land H776 is brimstone H1614 and salt H4417, burned H8316 debris H8316, [fn]unsown H3808 H2232 and unproductive H6779 H3808, and no H3808 H3605 grass H6212 grows H5927 on it, like the overthrow H4114 of Sodom H5467 and Gomorrah H6017, Admah H126 and Zeboiim H6636, which H834 the LORD H3068 overthrew H2015 in His anger H639 and in His wrath H2534.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - “All H3605 the nations H1471 will say H559, ‘Why H5921 H4100 has the LORD H3068 done H6213 all this H3602 to this H2088 land H776? Why H4100 this H2088 great H1419 [fn]outburst H2750 of anger H639?’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - ‘Therefore, the anger H639 of the LORD H3068 burned H2734 against that land H776, to bring H935 upon it every H3605 curse H7045 which is written H3789 in this H2088 book H5612;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and the LORD H3068 uprooted H5428 them from their land H127 in anger H639, fury H2534, and in great H1419 wrath H7110, and hurled H7993 them into another H312 land H776, as it is this H2088 day H3117.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - “Then My anger H639 will be kindled H2734 against them on that day H3117, and I will abandon H5800 them and hide H5641 My face H6440 from them, and they will be consumed H398, and many H7227 evils H7451 and troubles H6869 will find H4672 them; so they will say H559 on that day H3117, ‘Is it not because H5921 H3588 our God H430 is not among H7130 us that these H428 evils H7451 have found H4672 us?’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 -

For a fire H784 has flared H6919 in My anger H639,

And it burns H3344 to the lowest H8482 part H8482 of [fn]Sheol H7585,

And devours H398 the earth H776 with its yield H2981,

And sets H3857 on H3857 fire H3857 the foundations H4144 of the mountains H2022.


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