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# זַעַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2197

**storming** — used 5 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

storming [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2197/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַ֫עַף: n.m. storming, raging, rage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2197/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. storming, raging, rage (poet. and late)—ז׳ abs. 2 Ch 16:10; 28:9; cstr. Is 30:30 + 2 times; sf. זַעְפּוֹ Jon 1:15;— rage of king, leading to violence Pr 19:12 (‖ נַהַם כַּכְּפִיר), 2 Ch 16:10 (בְּז׳ עִמּוֹ עַל־זאת; ‖ כעם), 28:9; ז׳ אַף Is 30:30 raging of anger (of י׳); ז׳ י׳ Mi 7:9. raging of sea Jon 1:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a rage (2); \[the\] rage (1); rage (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 19:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.12/#tree)

נַ֣הַם כַּ֭כְּפִיר זַ֣עַף מֶ֑לֶךְ וּכְטַ֖ל עַל־עֵ֣שֶׂב רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.roaring like.(the) young lion \[the\].rage of.a.king and.\[is\] like dew on grass favor his

*JPS 1917:* The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

[Isaiah 30:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.30/#tree)

וְהִשְׁמִ֨יעַ יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־ה֣וֹד קוֹל֗וֹ וְנַ֤חַת זְרוֹעוֹ֙ יַרְאֶ֔ה בְּזַ֣עַף אַ֔ף וְלַ֖הַב אֵ֣שׁ אוֹכֵלָ֑ה נֶ֥פֶץ וָזֶ֖רֶם וְאֶ֥בֶן בָּרָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.cause.to.hear Yahweh (et) the.majesty his.voice his and the.lowering his.arm his he.will.show with rage of.anger and a.flame of.fire consuming a.driving.storm and a.rainstorm and stone\[s\] of.hail

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of His arm, with furious anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a bursting of clouds, and a storm of rain, and hailstones.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2197.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2197/): 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).