zaaf · rage

What it means

zaaf (זַעַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rage”.

Strong anger, 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. Fierce anger; the wildness of the sea.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rage ×4
• fury ×1
• raging ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jonah×1
• Micah×1

• 2 Chronicles 16:10

  Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the house of the stocks, for he was in a rage with him over this. And Asa crushed some of the people at that time.

• 2 Chronicles 28:9

  But there was a prophet of YHWH whose name was Oded; he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria, and said to them, “Look, because of the fury of YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, against Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them with a rage that has reached up to the heavens.

• Proverbs 19:12

  Like the roar of a young lion is the rage of a king, but like dew on the grass is his favor.

• Isaiah 30:30

  And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.

• Jonah 1:15

  Then they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its fury.

• Micah 7:9

  The rage of YHWH I will bear, for I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes justice for me; he will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness.