אַף
ʼaph · af
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Lexicon
Derivation: from H599 (אָנַף);
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
- properly, the nose or nostril
- hence, the face, and occasionally a person
- also, (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: anger(-gry), [phrase] before, countenance, face, [phrase] forebearing, forehead, [phrase] (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, [idiom] worthy, wrath.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to speak, the word
Strength, the leader that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אַף 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
276 occurrences · 276 OT · 0 NT · 126 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- anger40 · 27%
- and the anger12 · 8%
- wrath10 · 7%
- to anger8 · 5%
- of his anger8 · 5%
- in mine anger7 · 5%
- in anger5 · 3%
- in his anger5 · 3%
- for all this his anger5 · 3%
- of thine anger4 · 3%
- with his face4 · 3%
- the anger4 · 3%
- of his wrath4 · 3%
- mine anger4 · 3%
- his anger4 · 3%
- the wrath3 · 2%
- on his face3 · 2%
- them in mine anger3 · 2%
- and his anger3 · 2%
- of his nostrils2 · 1%
- out of his nostrils2 · 1%
- before2 · 1%
- longsuffering2 · 1%
- of thy nostrils2 · 1%
- himself with his face2 · 1%
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.