evra · fury

What it means

evra (עֶבְרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fury”.

Overflowing rage, fury.

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. Anger that bursts out with force and sweeps all away, unrestrained.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wrath ×23
• fury ×8
• furies ×2
• against the rages ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×2

• Genesis 49:7

  Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

• Job 21:30

  that for the day of calamity the evil man is reserved, for the day of furies they are carried off?

• Job 40:11

  Scatter the furies of your anger, and look at every proud one and bring him low.

• Psalms 7:6

  Rise up, YHWH, in your anger; lift yourself up against the rages of my adversaries, and awake for me; you have commanded judgment.

• Psalms 78:49

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

• Psalms 85:3

  You gathered in all your wrath; you turned back from the burning of your anger.

• Psalms 90:9

  For all our days decline in your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.

• Psalms 90:11

  Who knows the strength of your anger, and, according to the fear of you, your wrath?

• Proverbs 11:4

  Wealth does not profit in the day of fury, but righteousness delivers from death.

• Proverbs 11:23

  The desire of the righteous is only good; the hope of the wicked is fury.

• Proverbs 14:35

  The favor of a king is toward a prudent slave, but his fury will be on the one who brings shame.

• Proverbs 21:24

  Insolent, arrogant, “scoffer” is his name, who acts with the fury of insolence.

• Proverbs 22:8

  Whoever sows injustice will reap wickedness, and the rod of his fury will come to an end.

• Isaiah 9:19

  By the fury of YHWH Tsevaot the land is darkened, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

• Isaiah 10:6

  Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets.

• Isaiah 13:9

  Look, the day of YHWH is coming, cruel, and wrath and burning anger, to make the earth a desolation, and its sinners he will destroy from it.

• Isaiah 13:13

  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will quake out of its place at the wrath of YHWH Tsevaot, and on the day of his burning anger.

• Isaiah 14:6

  that struck peoples in wrath with blows without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger with persecution that no one held back.

• Isaiah 16:6

  We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud, his arrogance and his pride and his wrath; his boasts are not so.

• Jeremiah 7:29

  Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Jeremiah 48:30

  I know, declares YHWH, his wrath, and it is not so; his boasts have not done so.

• Lamentations 2:2

  Adonai has swallowed up and has not pitied all the pastures of Jacob; he has torn down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

• Lamentations 3:1

  I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

• Ezekiel 7:19

  Their silver into the streets they will throw, and their gold will be as impurity; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; their appetite they will not satisfy, and their insides they will not fill, for it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

• 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 22:21

  And I will collect you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in its midst.

• 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.”

• Ezekiel 38:19

  And in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath, I have spoken: Surely on that day there will be a great earthquake on the ground of Israel.

• Hosea 5:10

  The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary; upon them I will pour out like water my wrath.

• Hosea 13:11

  I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

• Amos 1:11

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke it; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and destroyed his compassion; and his anger tore continually, and his wrath he kept forever.

• Habakkuk 3:8

  Against the rivers was YHWH incensed? Or against the rivers was your anger? Or against the sea your wrath, when you rode on your horses, your chariots of salvation?

• Zephaniah 1:15

  A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and straits, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick cloud,

• Zephaniah 1:18

  Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; and by the fire of his jealousy all the earth will be devoured; for an extermination, yes, a terrifying one, he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.