Be angry
אָנַףStrong’s H0599anaph (a-naph)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “was angry”, “angry” and “should be angry”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.”
Meaning
- To be angry, to be displeased, to breathe hard(Qal) to be angry (of God) · (Hithpael) to be angry (always of God)
How it's translated
- he was angry 3
- and he was angry 3
- will you be angry 3
- and you will be angry 2
- he should be angry 1
- you have been angry 1
- you were angry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
- Psalms 4
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Ezra 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
- Deuteronomy 9:8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 9:20And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
- 1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
- 1 Kings 11:9And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
- 2 Kings 17:18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Hebrew dictionary
אָנַף anaph · be angry
1) to be angry, to be displeased, to breathe hard 1a) (Qal) to be angry (of God) 1b) (Hithpael) to be angry (always of God)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “angry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AN'GRY, adjective
[See anger.]
- Feeling resentment; provoked; followed generally by with before a person.“God is angry with the wicked every day” Psalms 7:11“Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?” Ecclesiastes 5:6
- Showing anger; wearing the marks of anger; caused by anger; as, an angry countenance; angry words.
- Inflamed, as a sore; red; manifesting inflammation.
- Raging; furious; tumultuous.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.