Wrath
קְצַףStrong’s H7109qetsaph (qe-tsaph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qetsaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “anger”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?”
Meaning
- Wrath (of God), anger
How it's translated
- anger 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
קְצַף qetsaph · wrath
wrath (of God), anger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wrath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WRATH, noun
[Latin]
- Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; as the wrath of Achilles.“When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased--” Esther 2:1“O Lord--in wrath remember mercy” Habakkuk 3:2
- The effects of anger. Proverbs 27:3
- The just punishment of an offense or crime.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.