anaf · be angry

What it means

anaf (אָנַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be angry”.

Grow very angry; it comes from a root that means "breathe hard."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be filled with wrath, usually YHWH.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• was incensed ×3
• Will you be angry ×2
• be angry ×2
• you are angry ×2
• angered ×1
• incensed ×1
• was angry ×1
• you have been angry ×1
• you were angry ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×4
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×1

• Deuteronomy 1:37

  Also with me YHWH was incensed because of you, saying, “You too shall not go in there.

• Deuteronomy 4:21

  YHWH was incensed with me because of your words, and he swore that I would not cross the Jordan and that I would not enter into the good land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

• Deuteronomy 9:8

  At Horeb you made YHWH angry, and YHWH was incensed with you to the point of destroying you.

• Deuteronomy 9:20

  And with Aaron YHWH was greatly incensed, to the point of destroying him; and I prayed also for Aaron at that time.

• 1 Kings 8:46

  When they sin against you — for there is no human being who does not sin — and you are angry with them and give them over before the enemy, and their captors carry them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

• 1 Kings 11:9

  And YHWH was angry with Solomon, because his heart had inclined away from YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

• 2 Kings 17:18

  YHWH was greatly angered with Israel and removed them from before his face; none was left but the tribe of Judah alone.

• 2 Chronicles 6:36

  When they sin against you —for there is no human being who does not sin— and you are angry with them and give them over before an enemy, and their captors carry them captive to a land far or near,

• Ezra 9:14

  shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples of these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you made an end of us, so that there is no remnant or escapees?

• Psalms 2:12

  Kiss the son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way, for soon his anger will flare up. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

• Psalms 60:1

  For the director. On The Lily of the Testimony. A Miktam of David, for teaching, when he fought against Aram-naharaim and against Aram of Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand. Elohim, you have rejected us, you have broken through us; you have been angry; restore us.

• Psalms 79:5

  How long, YHWH? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

• Psalms 85:5

  Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger from generation to generation?

• Isaiah 12:1

  And you will say on that day, “I give you thanks, YHWH, for you were angry with me; your anger has turned back, and you comfort me.