zaam · denounce, be indignant

What it means

zaam (זָעַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “denounce, be indignant”.

Denounce in indignation: be enraged against someone and declare him an object of wrath.

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 very angry with someone.
2. To curse someone in anger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• indignant ×7
• denounce ×2
• indignation ×2
• denounced ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Daniel×1
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Numbers 23:7

  And he took up his poem and said, “From Aram Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me, from the mountains of the east: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!’

• Numbers 23:8

  How shall I curse whom El has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom YHWH has not denounced?

• Psalms 7:11

  Elohim is a righteous judge, and an El who is indignant every day.

• Proverbs 22:14

  A deep pit is the mouth of strange women; he with whom YHWH is indignant will fall there.

• Proverbs 24:24

  Whoever says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, nations will be indignant with him;

• Proverbs 25:23

  The north wind brings forth rain, and indignant faces, a secret tongue.

• Isaiah 66:14

  And you will see, and your heart will rejoice, and your bones will flourish like tender grass; and the hand of YHWH will be known with his servants, and his indignation with his enemies.

• Daniel 11:30

  And ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart and return and be indignant against the holy covenant and act; and he will return and pay heed to those who forsake the holy covenant.

• Micah 6:10

  Are there still in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the scant ephah that provokes indignation?

• Zechariah 1:12

  And the angel of YHWH answered and said, “YHWH Tsevaot, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have been indignant these seventy years?”

• Malachi 1:4

  If Edom says, “We have been shattered, but we will return and build the ruins,” thus says YHWH Tsevaot: They will build, but I will tear down; and they will call them “Territory of wickedness” and “the people against whom YHWH is indignant forever.”

And 1 more times.