זַעַם
zaʻam · zah'-am
strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God's displeasure with sin)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2194 (זָעַם);
strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God's displeasure with sin)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: angry, indignation, rage.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To cut, to sustain that works to see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זַעַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of his indignation2 · 9%
- of indignation2 · 9%
- his indignation2 · 9%
- mine indignation2 · 9%
- of thine anger1 · 5%
- thine indignation1 · 5%
- and indignation1 · 5%
- of thine indignation1 · 5%
- is mine indignation1 · 5%
- and the indignation1 · 5%
- until the indignation1 · 5%
- me with indignation1 · 5%
- in the indignation1 · 5%
- of the indignation1 · 5%
- till the indignation1 · 5%
- for the rage1 · 5%
- in indignation1 · 5%
- upon them mine indignation1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.