aph H639

אַף (aph) means “face: anger” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אַף Hebrew · H639 276 tagged occurrences in 269 verses

Pronunciation guide: af Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0639G

אַף · aph · face: anger

: anger 1) nostril, nose, face 2) anger

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TBESH · H0639H

אַף · aph · face: nose

: nose 1) nostril, nose, face 2) anger

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TBESH · H0639I

אַף · aph · face

: face 1) nostril, nose, face 2) anger

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H599 (אָנַף); properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

KJV glosses: anger(-gry), [phrase] before, countenance, face, [phrase] forebearing, forehead, [phrase] (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, [idiom] worthy, wrath.

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How translators render H639

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
anger	32
his anger	17
facedown	14
my anger	13
to anger	11
the anger	10
with anger	9
so the anger	7
in anger	6
in my anger	5
then the anger	5
and the anger	4
in his anger	4
in your anger	4
my wrath	3
of the anger	3
of your anger	3
of your nostrils	3
with their faces	3
your anger	3
an angry	2
and anger	2
from his nostrils	2
in their anger	2
in your nose	2
of anger	2
of his anger	2
of my anger	2
therefore the anger	2
your nose	2
according to my anger	1
according to the anger	1
and fell facedown	1
and he burned with great anger	1
and in my anger	1
and my anger	1
and nose	1
and turn his wrath	1
and when my anger	1
anger of the lord	1
before	1
before you	1
by my anger	1
by your anger	1
does god in his anger	1
does your anger	1
double	1
for his anger	1
from anger	1
has his anger	1
her nose	1
his nose	1
his wrath	1
in angry	1
in his fierce anger	1
in his nostrils	1
in his wrath	1
in its nostrils	1
in my furious anger	1
in my nostrils	1
in rage	1
in wrath	1
into his nostrils	1
of gods wrath	1
of his nostrils	1
of his wrath	1
of our life	1
of the nose	1
of your breath	1
of your brow	1
of your wrath	1
or the anger	1
rage	1
remains in my nostrils	1
resentment	1
restrained his anger	1
snout	1
so in my anger	1
so that my anger	1
that your anger	1
their anger	1
their nose	1
they have noses	1
through his nose	1
to execute my wrath	1
when their anger	1
why does your anger	1
with the cloud of his anger	1
you are angry	1
you in my anger	1
your noses	1
your nostrils	1
your wrath	1
yourself in anger	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
anger	42
and the anger	12
wrath	10
in mine anger	8
to anger	8
of his anger	7
face	6
for all this his anger	5
his anger	5
in anger	5
in his anger	5
the anger	5
and his anger	4
mine anger	4
of his wrath	4
of thine anger	4
longsuffering	3
on his face	3
the wrath	3
them in mine anger	3
and anger	2
and mine anger	2
before	2
for mine anger	2
himself with his face	2
his wrath	2
in his wrath	2
in thy nose	2
my anger	2
of his nostrils	2
of mine anger	2
of thy nostrils	2
out of his nostrils	2
thine anger	2
thy nose	2
was his wrath	2
with his face	2
a provocation of mine anger	1
according to mine anger	1
according to thine anger	1
against the wrath	1
all in whose nostrils	1
an angry	1
and his wrath	1
and let not thine anger	1
and my wrath	1
and nose	1
angry	1
as mine anger	1
at your nostrils	1
behold mine anger	1
by thine anger	1
doth thine anger	1
even in anger	1
faces	1
for his anger	1
for in their anger	1
for through the anger	1
forbearing	1
from anger	1
hath he in anger	1
he his anger	1
him but then the anger	1
himself on his face	1
himself the wrath	1
i beseech thee let thine anger	1
in his nostrils	1
in my face	1
in my nose	1
in my nostrils	1
in my wrath	1
in thee in anger	1
in thine anger	1
in thy longsuffering	1
into his nose	1
into his nostrils	1
let not the anger	1
let not thine anger	1
me not in thine anger	1
my wrath	1
neither in anger	1
nose	1
not his anger	1
not in thine anger	1
not noses	1
of his countenance	1
of our nostrils	1
of the nose	1
of thy face	1
of thy nose	1
of thy wrath	1
of wrath	1
off mine anger	1
on her face	1
on thy forehead	1
once thou art angry	1
snout	1
so will the anger	1
surely his anger	1
that my wrath	1
their anger	1
their faces	1
them in anger	1
them in his anger	1
themselves with their faces	1
then his wrath	1
then my anger	1
therefore is the anger	1
therefore the anger	1
therefore was the wrath	1
thus shall mine anger	1
to his anger	1
to me that his wrath	1
to their nose	1
to wrath	1
until thy wrath	1
unto them in his wrath	1
unto your nostrils	1
upon her face	1
upon his face	1
upon me and in wrath	1
when his wrath	1
when their wrath	1
wherefore the anger	1
wherefore their anger	1
wherewith his anger	1
why doth thy wrath	1
with an angry	1
with anger	1
with me thine anger	1
worthy	1
you lest the anger	1
yourselves to them then shall the anger	1

Verses containing H639

Page 2 of 6. 269 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Deuteronomy 33:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
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Joshua 7:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.
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Joshua 7:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.
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Joshua 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
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Judges 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
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Judges 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
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Judges 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
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Judges 6:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
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Judges 9:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Zebul the governor of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he burned with anger.
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Judges 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,
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Judges 14:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
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1 Samuel 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
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1 Samuel 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he burned with great anger.
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1 Samuel 17:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
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1 Samuel 20:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
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1 Samuel 20:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
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1 Samuel 20:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
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1 Samuel 24:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence
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1 Samuel 25:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
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1 Samuel 25:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She arose, bowed facedown, and said, “Here is your servant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
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1 Samuel 28:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.
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1 Samuel 28:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out His burning anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.
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2 Samuel 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.
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2 Samuel 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
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2 Samuel 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
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2 Samuel 14:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
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2 Samuel 18:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
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2 Samuel 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
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2 Samuel 22:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
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2 Samuel 24:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
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2 Samuel 24:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
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1 Kings 1:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.
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1 Kings 1:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”
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2 Kings 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad.
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2 Kings 19:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
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2 Kings 23:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.
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2 Kings 24:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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1 Chronicles 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
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1 Chronicles 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.
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2 Chronicles 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
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2 Chronicles 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.
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2 Chronicles 20:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.
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2 Chronicles 25:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. And they were furious with Judah and returned home in great anger.
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2 Chronicles 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
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2 Chronicles 28:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”
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2 Chronicles 28:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You must not bring the captives here,” they said, “for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”
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2 Chronicles 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
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2 Chronicles 30:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
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Ezra 8:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
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Ezra 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
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