zaam · indignation, fury

What it means

zaam (זַעַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “indignation, fury”.

Indignation: fury, especially God's anger at evil.

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. Strong anger, above all God's against evil.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• indignation ×21
• because of the fury ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Psalms 38:3

  There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

• Psalms 69:24

  Pour out upon them your indignation, and let the burning of your anger overtake them.

• Psalms 78:49

  He sent against them the burning of his anger, wrath and indignation and distress, a dispatch of messengers of evils.

• Psalms 102:10

  because of your indignation and your wrath; for you lifted me up and threw me down.

• Isaiah 10:5

  Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger! And the staff in their hand is my indignation.

• Isaiah 10:25

  For in yet a little, a very little while, the indignation will come to an end, and my anger will turn to their destruction.

• Isaiah 13:5

  They come from a land far away, from the end of the heavens, YHWH and the instruments of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

• Isaiah 26:20

  Go, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation passes.

• Isaiah 30:27

  Look, the name of YHWH comes from afar, his anger burning, and heavy the rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a fire that devours,

• Jeremiah 10:10

  But YHWH is the true Elohim; he is the living Elohim and the eternal King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot bear his indignation.

• Jeremiah 15:17

  I did not sit in the circle of those who make merry, nor did I exult; because of your hand I sat alone, for with indignation you filled me.

• Jeremiah 50:25

  YHWH has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his indignation; for this is a work for Adonai YHWH Tsevaot in the land of the Chaldeans.

• Lamentations 2:6

  And he has done violence, as to a garden, to his booth; he has destroyed his meeting place; YHWH has made them forget in Zion appointed feast and Sabbath, and he has spurned, in the indignation of his anger, king and priest.

• Ezekiel 21:31

  And I will pour out on you my indignation; with the fire of my wrath I will blow on you; and I will give you into the hand of brutish men, craftsmen of destruction.

• Ezekiel 22:24

  “Son of man, say to her: You are a land that is not cleansed, not rained upon in the day of indignation.

• Ezekiel 22:31

  And I poured out on them my indignation; with the fire of my wrath I consumed them; their way on their head I have put, declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Daniel 8:19

  And he said, “Look, I am making known to you what will be at the end of the indignation; for it is for the appointed time of the end.

• Daniel 11:36

  And the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and against El of gods he will speak astonishing things, and he will prosper until the indignation is completed, for what is decreed will be done.

• Hosea 7:16

  They turn, but not upward; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes will fall by the sword because of the fury of their tongue; this will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

• Nahum 1:6

  Before his indignation who can stand? And who can rise up in the burning of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down before him.

• Habakkuk 3:12

  In indignation you march through the earth; in anger you thresh the nations.

• Zephaniah 3:8

  Therefore wait for me, declares YHWH, for the day when I rise up for the plunder; for my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them my indignation, all the burning of my anger; for by the fire of my jealousy all the earth will be devoured.