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זָעַף

zaaf · be downcast; rage

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2196 · appears 5 times in the Bible

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What it means

zaaf (זָעַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be downcast; rage”.

Be downcast, troubled. Elsewhere, be enraged.

How to say it

za·af

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. Be gloomy, out of sorts.
  2. Become filled with anger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • was enraged ×2
  • more downcast than ×1
  • rages ×1
  • were downcast ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 40:6

    Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, and look, they were downcast.

  • 2 Chronicles 26:19

    Uzziah was enraged, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of YHWH, beside the altar of incense.

  • Proverbs 19:3

    The folly of a man perverts his way, and against YHWH his heart rages.

  • Daniel 1:10

    And the chief of the officials said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces more downcast than the youths who are your age? Then you would make my head guilty to the king.”

And 1 more times.