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# קָצַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7107

**be wroth** — used 34 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 wroth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7107/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָצַף: vb. be wroth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7107/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be wroth (NH id., Hiph. make wrathful (rare); Syriac ܩܨܰܦ be wrathful, also be anxious, fearful);— Pf. 3 ms. ק׳ Gn 41:10 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִקְצֹף Lv 10:6 +, etc.; Inf. cstr. קְצֹף Is 54:9; Pt. קֹצֵף Zc 1:15;—be wroth: of God; abs. Dt 1:34 Is 57:16, 17(×2); 64:4, 8; Zc 1:15; c. עַל against, Lv 10:6; Nu 16:22 (P), Dt 9:19; Is 47:6; 54:9; La 5:22; Zc 1:2, 15; Ec 5:5; c. אֶל Jos 22:18 (P). of man; abs. Est 1:12; 2:21; 2 K 5:11; c. עַל Gn 40:2; 41:10 (E), Ex 16:20; Lv 10:16; Nu 31:14 (P), Je 37:15; 1 S 29:4; 2 K 13:19. Pf. 2 ms. הִקְצַפְתָּ Dt 9:7; 2 mpl. הִקְצַפְתֶּם v 8; Impf. 3 mpl. יַקְצִיפוּ ψ 106:32; Inf. cstr. הַקְצִיף Zc 8:14; Pt. pl. מַקְצִפִים Dt 9:22;—provoke to wrath, c. acc. י׳ Dt 9:7, 8, 22; Zc 8:14; so (acc. om.) ψ 106:32. put oneself in a rage: Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְהִתְקַצַּף Is 8:21, of hard-pressed people.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: he was angry (12); I was angry (4); he will be angry (2).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.2/#tree)

קָצַ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה עַל־אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם קָֽצֶף׃

*Word for word:* he.was.angry Yahweh towards ancestors your anger

*JPS 1917:* 'The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

[Lamentations 5:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.22/#tree)

כִּ֚י אִם־מָאֹ֣ס מְאַסְתָּ֔נוּ קָצַ֥פְתָּ עָלֵ֖ינוּ עַד־מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (if) utterly.(reject) you have.rejected.us you.are.angry towards us up.to muchness

*JPS 1917:* Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7107.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7107/): 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).