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# זָעַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2196

**be out of humour** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be out of humour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2196/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָעַף: vb. be out of humour, vexed; be enraged [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2196/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be out of humour, vexed; be enraged (Aramaic ܙܥܰܦ rage against, זְעַף to storm, זַעֲפָא storm; cf. Sam. ࠆࠏࠐblow, breathe)— Impf. יִזְעַף Pr 19:3; וַיִּזְעַף 2 Ch 26:19; Inf. וַעְפּוֹ 2 Ch 26:19; Pt. pl. זֹעֲפִים Gn 40:6 Dn 1:10;— be out of humour Gn 40:6 (E); dejected, of face Dn 1:10; sq. עַל Pr 19:3 fret against (AV). be enraged (late: cf. Aramaic above) 2 Ch 26:19; sq. עִם v 19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (1); he was enraged (1); it rages (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 19:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.3/#tree)

אִוֶּ֣לֶת אָ֭דָם תְּסַלֵּ֣ף דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וְעַל־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִזְעַ֥ף לִבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].folly of.a.person it.subverts way his and towards Yahweh it.rages heart his

*JPS 1917:* The foolishness of man perverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

[Jonah 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.15/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־יוֹנָ֔ה וַיְטִלֻ֖הוּ אֶל־הַיָּ֑ם וַיַּעֲמֹ֥ד הַיָּ֖ם מִזַּעְפּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.picked.up (et) Jonah and they hurled.him into the sea and it.stopped the sea from storming its

*JPS 1917:* So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2196.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2196/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).