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Fury

עֶבְרָהStrong’s H5678

evrah (ev-rah)

Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Evrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wrath my”, “fury” and “fury your”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.

“Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.”
Genesis 49:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Outpouring, overflow, excess, fury, wrath, arroganceoverflow, excess, outburst · arrogance · overflowing rage or fury
How it's translated
  • wrath my 6
  • fury 4
  • fury your 3
  • fury his 3
  • and fury his 2
  • fury of 2
  • and wrath their 1
  • furi 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 6
  • Psalms 5
  • Proverbs 5
  • Ezekiel 5
  • Job 2
  • Jeremiah 2

12 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

עֶבְרָה evrah · fury

1) outpouring, overflow, excess, fury, wrath, arrogance 1a) overflow, excess, outburst 1b) arrogance 1c) overflowing rage or fury

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “fury” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FU'RY, noun

[Latin furor, furia, furo, to rage.]

  1. A violent rushing; impetuous motion; as the fury of the winds.
  2. Rage; a storm of anger; madness; turbulence.
  3. Enthusiasm; heat of the mind.
  4. In mythology, a deity; a goddess of vengeance; hence, a stormy turbulent, violent woman.

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.