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 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
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
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.
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!’
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
