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Strong's #2196: za`aph (pronounced zaw-af')

a primitive root; properly, to boil up, i.e. (figuratively) to be peevish or angry:--fret, sad, worse liking, be wroth.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zâ‛aph

1) to fret, be sad, be wroth, be vexed, be enraged, be out of humour

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be out of humour

1a2) to be enraged, be angry

2) (Qal)

2a) to appear perplexed, appear troubled

2b) to be sad-looking

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Genesis 40:6: "them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad."
2 Chronicles 26:19: "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth the priests,"
2 Chronicles 26:19: "and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth the priests, the leprosy even rose up"
Proverbs 19:3: "perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth the LORD."
Daniel 1:10: "should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?"









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