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Strong's #2194: za`am (pronounced zaw-am')

a primitive root; properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged:--abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zâ‛am

1) to denounce, express indignation, be indignant

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to have indignation, be indignant, be angrily indignant, be defiant

1a2) to be abhorrent

1a3) to express indignation in speech, denounce, curse

1b) (Niphal) to show indignation, show anger

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Numbers 23:7: "saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel."
Numbers 23:8: "hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?"
Numbers 23:8: "shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?"
Psalms 7:11: "judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day."
Proverbs 22:14: "of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein."
Proverbs 24:24: "him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor"
Proverbs 25:23: "wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue."
Isaiah 66:14: "shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies."
Daniel 11:30: "shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do;"
Micah 6:10: "of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?"
Zechariah 1:12: "Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?"
Malachi 1:4: "and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation forever."









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