Wrath
קֶ֫צֶףStrong’s H7110qetseph (qe-tseph)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetseph is the Hebrew word usually translated “wrath”, “anger” and “wrath of”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.”
Meaning
- Wrath, angerof God · of man
- Splinter, twig, broken twigmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- wrath 13
- and in wrath 3
- and anger 3
- anger 2
- wrath of 2
- in anger your 1
- and wrath your 1
- in wrath my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Jeremiah 4
- Numbers 3
- Isaiah 3
- Zechariah 3
- Joshua 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 1:15In contextAnd I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
- Zechariah 7:12In contextYea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
- Numbers 1:53But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
- Numbers 16:46And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
- Numbers 18:5And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 29:28And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫צֶף qetseph · wrath
1) wrath, anger 1a) of God 1b) of man
קֶ֫צֶף qetseph · splinter
1) splinter, twig, broken twig 1a) meaning uncertain
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.