orgē · wrath, anger

What it means

orgē (ὀργή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wrath, anger”.

Anger, wrath; said of God, his judgment against 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. The wrath that flares up in a person against another.
2. God's anger against evil, his punishment.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• wrath ×31
• anger ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Romans×12
• Ephesians×3
• Colossians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×3
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×2
• James×2
• Revelation×6

• Matthew 3:7

  But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

• Mark 3:5

  And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their heart, he says to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

• Luke 3:7

  So he was saying to the crowds that were coming out to be immersed by him, “Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

• Luke 21:23

  Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing in those days! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

• John 3:36

  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

• Romans 1:18

  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by unrighteousness,

• Romans 2:5

  But by your hardness and your heart without change of mind you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

• Romans 2:8

  but to those who are of rivalry and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

• Romans 3:5

  But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak in a human way.)

• Romans 4:15

  For the law brings about wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

• Romans 5:9

  Much more, then, having now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

• Romans 9:22

  But what if God, wanting to show his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

• Romans 12:19

  Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath; for it is written: Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.

• Romans 13:4

  for it is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is God’s servant, an avenger for wrath on the one who practices evil.

• Romans 13:5

  Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience.

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness and rage and wrath and shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.

• Ephesians 5:6

  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

• Colossians 3:6

  because of which things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

• Colossians 3:8

  But now you also put away all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, obscene talk from your mouth.

• 1 Thessalonians 1:10

  and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:16

  hindering us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath has come upon them to the end.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:9

  For God did not appoint us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus the Messiah,

• 1 Timothy 2:8

  So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.

• Hebrews 3:11

  So I swore in my wrath: They will not enter into my rest.

• Hebrews 4:3

  For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said: So I swore in my wrath: They will not enter into my rest; although the works had been finished from the foundation of the world.

• James 1:19

  Know this, my beloved brothers. And let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

• James 1:20

  for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.

• Revelation 6:16

  and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;

• Revelation 6:17

  for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

• Revelation 11:18

  And the nations raged, and your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

• Revelation 14:10

  he too will drink of the wine of the fury of God, which is mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur before holy angels and before the Lamb.

• Revelation 16:19

  And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, so that he would give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

• Revelation 19:15

  And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it he may strike the nations; and he will shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the winepress of the wine of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

And 2 more times.