קֶצֶף
qetseph · keh'-tsef
a splinter (as chipped off); figuratively, rage or strife
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7107 (קָצַף);
a splinter (as chipped off); figuratively, rage or strife
- a splinter (as chipped off)
- figuratively, rage or strife
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: foam, indignation, [idiom] sore, wrath.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- 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)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to pursue the straight path › to speak, the word
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to pursue the straight path that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קֶצֶף 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
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and wrath4 · 14%
- wrath4 · 14%
- that there be no wrath2 · 7%
- indignation2 · 7%
- for them: for there is wrath1 · 3%
- lest wrath1 · 3%
- not, because there fell wrath1 · 3%
- is wrath1 · 3%
- and so wrath1 · 3%
- wherefore the wrath1 · 3%
- therefore there was wrath1 · 3%
- so that the wrath1 · 3%
- me not in thy wrath1 · 3%
- and thy wrath1 · 3%
- for the indignation1 · 3%
- unto thee: for in my wrath1 · 3%
- at his wrath1 · 3%
- because of the wrath1 · 3%
- as the foam1 · 3%
- hath been sore1 · 3%
- sore1 · 3%
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.