katsaf · be angry

What it means

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

Burst out in rage; provoke to anger.

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 feel irritated and furious with someone, or to make another so.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• was angry ×14
• be angry ×6
• angry ×4
• were angry ×3
• became angry ×2
• you made angry ×2
• he will be enraged ×1
• provoked me to anger ×1
• they provoked him to wrath ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Esther×2
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 40:2

  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers,

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, me and the chief of the bakers.

• Exodus 16:20

  But they did not listen to Moses; some men left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.

• Leviticus 10:6

  Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and he does not become angry with all the community; but your brothers, all the house of Israel, shall weep over the burning that YHWH has kindled.

• Leviticus 10:16

  Moses searched diligently for the goat of the sin offering, and look, it had been burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, saying,

• Numbers 16:22

  And they fell on their faces and said, “El, Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will you be angry with all the community?”

• Numbers 31:14

  Moses was angry with the appointed officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who came from the army of the war.

• Deuteronomy 1:34

  YHWH heard the voice of your words, and he was angry and swore, saying,

• Deuteronomy 9:7

  Remember, do not forget, how you made YHWH your Elohim angry in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 9:8

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

• Deuteronomy 9:19

  For I was afraid of the anger and the fury with which YHWH was angry with you, to destroy you. But YHWH listened to me that time also.

• Deuteronomy 9:22

  Also at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah you were making YHWH angry.

• Joshua 22:18

  And you turn back today from following YHWH! And it shall be, if you rebel today against YHWH, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel.

• 1 Samuel 29:4

  But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send back the man, and let him return to his place where you assigned him; he shall not go down with us into battle, so that he may not become to us an opponent in the battle. For with what could this fellow make himself acceptable to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of these men?

• 2 Kings 5:11

  Naaman was angry and went away and said, “Look, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out and stand and call on the name of YHWH his Elohim, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leprous man.’

• 2 Kings 13:19

  The man of Elohim was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times! Then you would have struck Aram until you had finished it; but now three times you will strike Aram.”

• Esther 1:12

  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that came by the hand of the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his fury burned within him.

• Esther 2:21

  In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the gate of the king, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, of the keepers of the threshold, became angry and sought to stretch out their hand against King Ahasuerus.

• Psalms 106:32

  And they provoked him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses because of them;

• Ecclesiastes 5:6

  Do not let your mouth bring your flesh into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was an error. Why should Elohim be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

• Isaiah 8:21

  And he will pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and it will happen when he is hungry that he will be enraged and curse his king and his Elohim, and turn his face upward.

• Isaiah 47:6

  I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand; you showed them no compassion; on the old man you made your yoke very heavy.

• Isaiah 54:9

  “For like the waters of Noah is this to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah would not again pass over the earth, so I have sworn not to be angry with you or to rebuke you.

• Isaiah 57:16

  For not forever will I contend, nor forever will I be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breaths that I made.

• Isaiah 57:17

  For the iniquity of his gain I was angry and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on wayward in the way of his heart.

• Isaiah 64:5

  You meet the one who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Look, you were angry, and we sinned; in them from of old, and we will be saved.

• Isaiah 64:9

  Do not be angry, YHWH, to the extreme, and do not remember iniquity forever; look, look, please; all of us are your people.

• Jeremiah 37:15

  And the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in the house of imprisonment, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it into the prison.

• Lamentations 5:22

  Unless you have utterly despised us, and you are angry with us beyond measure.

• Zechariah 1:2

  “YHWH was angry with your fathers with anger.

• Zechariah 1:15

  And with great anger I am angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was angry only a little, but they helped toward evil.

• Zechariah 8:14

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot: As I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked me to anger, says YHWH Tsevaot, and I did not relent,

And 2 more times.