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Hebrew verb · H2194

זָעַם

zaamzaw-am'

be indignant

12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: zâʻam

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2194is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2194

properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged

The King James renders it: abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

zaam is rendered "be indignant". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’

Numbers 23:7זֹעֲמָ֥ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's twelve uses are in Numbers.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • indignant2
  • accursed1
  • and he will be indignant1
  • and he will direct indignation1
  • denounce1
  • he has denounced1
  • he was indignant1
  • is cursed of1
  • they will denounce him1
  • will I denounce1
  • you have been indignant1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

זָעַקzaaqto cry outUses73
זָעַףzaaphto enrageUses5
זָעַךְzaakto extinguishUses1

All 12, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֶזְעֹ֔ם1
  • וְזָעַ֖ם1
  • וְזָעַ֥ם1
  • זְע֥וּם1
  • זְעוּמָֽה׃1
  • זָעַ֖ם1
  • זָעַ֥ם1
  • זֹעֵ֥ם1
  • זֹעֲמָ֥ה1
  • זָעַ֔מְתָּה1
  • יִזְעָמ֥וּהוּ1
  • נִ֝זְעָמִ֗ים1

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural1HVNrmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3mp/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular1HVqsfsa
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HVqsmsc
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he1HVqv2ms/Sh

Numbers

three uses
  • And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’

    Numbers 23:7

    • זֹעֲמָ֥הzoamahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: denounce
  • How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

    Numbers 23:8

    • אֶזְעֹ֔םʾezomverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I denounce
    • זָעַ֖םzaamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has denounced

Psalms

one use
  • God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

    Psalms 7:11

    • זֹעֵ֥םzoemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: indignant

Proverbs

three uses
  • The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

    Proverbs 22:14

    • זְע֥וּםzeumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: is cursed of
  • Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

    Proverbs 24:24

    • יִזְעָמ֥וּהוּyizamuhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they will denounce him
  • As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

    Proverbs 25:23

    • נִ֝זְעָמִ֗יםnizamimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: indignant

Isaiah

one use
  • When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

    Isaiah 66:14

    • וְזָעַ֖םvezaamHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will be indignant

Daniel

one use
  • Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

    Daniel 11:30

    • וְזָעַ֥םvezaamHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will direct indignation

Micah

one use
  • Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

    Micah 6:10

    • זְעוּמָֽה׃zeumahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: accursed

Zechariah

one use
  • Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

    Zechariah 1:12

    • זָעַ֔מְתָּהzaamtahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have been indignant

Malachi

one use
  • Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

    Malachi 1:4

    • זָעַ֥םzaamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was indignant

The letters

Gematria 117· 677 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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