To enrage
זָעַףStrong’s H2196zaaph (za-aph)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zaaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “looking dejected”, “was enraged” and “when enraging he”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.”
Meaning
- To fret, be sad, be wroth, be vexed, be enraged, be out of humour(Qal)
- (Qal)to appear perplexed, appear troubled · to be sad-looking
How it's translated
- looking dejected 1
- and he was enraged 1
- and when enraging he 1
- it rages 1
- looking thin 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Proverbs 1
- Daniel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 40:6And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
- Proverbs 19:3The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
זָעַף zaaph · to enrage
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “enrage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENRA'GE, verb transitive
To excite rage in; to exasperate; to provoke to fury or madness; to make furious.
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.