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אַף

aph

af

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼaph

properly, the nose or nostril

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

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

  • 276
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 32 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 126
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 276 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 126

  • אַף־23
  • אַפּ֔וֹ12
  • אַ֥ף11
  • אַפּ֑וֹ11
  • אַ֤ף8
  • אַפּֽוֹ׃8
  • אַ֣ף7
  • אָ֑ף6
  • אַפּ֖וֹ6
  • אַפַּ֖יִם6
  • אַפִּ֔י5
  • אַפַּ֙יִם֙5

and 114 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 56

  • [the] anger of54
  • anger his48
  • anger my20
  • anger your17
  • anger15
  • angers15
  • in anger my12
  • face10
  • in anger8
  • in anger his7
  • in anger your4
  • nose your4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 30

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)54
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular50
  • noun · masculine dual27
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular20
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular19
  • noun · masculine singular18
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular17
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular13
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular9
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular8
  • preposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 54
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 50
  • HNcmda · 27
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 20
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 19
  • HNcmsa · 18
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs · 17
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 13
  • HR/Ncmsa · 9
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 8
  • HR/Ncmdc/Sp3ms · 6
  • HNcmsc/Sp2fs · 4

All 276, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis13 occurrences
Exodus10 occurrences
Numbers15 occurrences
Deuteronomy13 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges7 occurrences
1 Samuel11 occurrences
2 Samuel9 occurrences
1 Kings2 occurrences
2 Kings5 occurrences
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles10 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job21 occurrences
Psalms35 occurrences
Proverbs16 occurrences
Song of Solomon2 occurrences
Isaiah26 occurrences
Jeremiah24 occurrences
Lamentations11 occurrences
Ezekiel15 occurrences
Daniel2 occurrences
Hosea4 occurrences
Joel1 occurrence
Amos2 occurrences
Jonah2 occurrences
Micah2 occurrences
Nahum2 occurrences
Habakkuk2 occurrences
Zephaniah4 occurrences
Zechariah1 occurrence

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אַף

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).