Face
אַףStrong’s H0639aph
Appears in 269 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aph is the Hebrew word usually translated “anger of”, “anger his” and “anger”. It appears in 269 verses of the Old Testament.
“O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.”
Meaning
- Nostril, nose, face
- Anger
- Face, nose
How it's translated
- anger of 54
- anger his 48
- anger 30
- anger my 20
- anger your 18
- in anger my 12
- face 10
- in anger 10
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 35
- Isaiah 25
- Jeremiah 24
- Job 20
- Numbers 15
- Proverbs 15
32 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:20In contextThen shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
- Zechariah 10:3In contextMine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
- Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
- Genesis 19:1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
All 269 verses, by book
- Psalms 35
- 2:52:126:17:610:418:818:1521:927:930:537:855:356:769:2474:176:777:978:2178:3178:3878:4978:5085:385:586:1590:790:1195:11103:8106:40110:5115:6124:3138:7145:8
- Isaiah 25
- 2:223:215:257:49:129:179:2110:410:510:2512:113:313:913:1314:630:2730:3037:2942:2548:949:2363:363:665:566:15
- Jeremiah 24
- 2:354:84:267:2010:2412:1315:1415:1517:418:2321:523:2025:3725:3830:2432:3132:3733:536:742:1844:649:3751:4552:3
- Joel 1
- 2:13
- Zechariah 1
- 10:3
Hebrew dictionary
אַף aph · face
: anger 1) nostril, nose, face 2) anger
אֲנַף anaph · face
face, nose Aramaic of aph (אַף ": anger" H0639)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “face” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FACE, noun
[Latin, to make.]
- In a general sense, the surface of a thing, or the side which presents itself to the view of a spectator; as the face of the earth; the face of the waters.
- A part of the surface of a thing; or the plane surface of a solid.
- The surface of the fore part of an animals head, particularly of the human head; the visage.“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread” Genesis 3:19“Joseph bowed himself with his face to the earth” Genesis 48:12
- Countenance; cast of features; look; air of the face
All definitions and other forms of “face”
- The front of a thing; the forepart; the flat surface that presents itself first to view; as the face of a house. Ezekiel 41:14
- Visible state; appearance.
- Appearance; look.
- State of confrontation.
- Confidence; boldness; impudence; a bold front.
- Presence; sight; as in the phrases, before the face in the face to the face from the face
- The person.“I had not thought to see thy face” Genesis 48:11
- In scripture, face is used for anger or favor.“Make thy face to shine on thy servant” Psalms 31:16“How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?” Psalms 13:1
- A distorted form of the face; as in the phrase, to make faces, or to make wry faces.
- When both parties are present; as, to have accusers face to face Acts 25:16
- Nakedly; without the interposition of any other body.“Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face” 1 Corinthians 13:12
FACE, verb transitive
- To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
- To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front towards.
- To cover with additional superficies; to cover in front; as a fortification faced with marble; to face a garment with silk.
FACE, verb intransitive
- To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
- To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
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.