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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2195

זַעַם

zaamzah'-am

indignation

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

Concordance spelling: zaʻam

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2195is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2195

strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God's displeasure with sin)

The King James renders it: angry, indignation, rage.

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 "indignation". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:3זַעְמֶ֑ךָ

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 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

  • indignation6
  • indignation his4
  • indignation my4
  • indignation your3
  • and indignation1
  • from indignation of1
  • in indignation1
  • in indignation of1
  • the indignation1

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.

זַעַקzaaqoutcryUses18
זַעַףzaaphrageUses6

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 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

  • זַ֔עַם3
  • זָֽעַם׃2
  • זַעְמִ֔י2
  • זַעְמֶ֑ךָ2
  • בְּזַ֖עַם1
  • בְּזַֽעַם־1
  • הַזָּ֑עַם1
  • וָזַ֣עַם1
  • זַ֖עַם1
  • זַעְמ֔וֹ1
  • זַעְמ֑וֹ1
  • זַעְמוֹ֙1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcmsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HNcmsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa

Psalms

four uses
  • There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

    Psalms 38:3

    • זַעְמֶ֑ךָza'mekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: indignation your
  • Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.

    Psalms 69:24

    • זַעְמֶ֑ךָza'mekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: indignation your
  • He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

    Psalms 78:49

    • וָזַ֣עַםvazaamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and indignation
  • because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

    Psalms 102:10

    • זַֽעַמְךָ֥zaamkhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: indignation your

Isaiah

five uses
  • Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

    Isaiah 10:5

    • זַעְמִֽי׃za'minoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: indignation my
  • For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

    Isaiah 10:25

    • זַ֔עַםzaamnoun · masculine singulartagged: indignation
  • They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

    Isaiah 13:5

    • זַעְמ֔וֹza'monoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: indignation his
  • Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

    Isaiah 26:20

    • זָֽעַם׃zaamnoun · masculine singulartagged: indignation
  • Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.

    Isaiah 30:27

    • זַ֔עַםzaamnoun · masculine singulartagged: indignation

Jeremiah

three uses
  • But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

    Jeremiah 10:10

    • זַעְמֽוֹ׃ סza'monoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: indignation his
  • I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

    Jeremiah 15:17

    • זַ֖עַםzaamnoun · masculine singulartagged: indignation
  • The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

    Jeremiah 50:25

    • זַעְמ֑וֹza'monoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: indignation his

Lamentations

one use
  • He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

    Lamentations 2:6

    • בְּזַֽעַם־bezaam-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in indignation of

Ezekiel

three uses
  • I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.

    Ezekiel 21:31

    • זַעְמִ֔יza'minoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: indignation my
  • “Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’

    Ezekiel 22:24

    • זָֽעַם׃zaamnoun · masculine singulartagged: indignation
  • So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 22:31

    • זַעְמִ֔יza'minoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: indignation my

Daniel

two uses
  • and said, “Behold, I will make known to you what will happen in the latter time of wrath, because it concerns the appointed time of the end.

    Daniel 8:19

    • הַזָּ֑עַםhazaamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the indignation
  • Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.

    Daniel 11:36

    • זַ֔עַםzaamnoun · masculine singulartagged: indignation

Hosea

one use
  • They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

    Hosea 7:16

    • מִזַּ֣עַםmizaampreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from indignation of

Nahum

one use
  • Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

    Nahum 1:6

    • זַעְמוֹ֙za'monoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: indignation his

Habakkuk

one use
  • You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

    Habakkuk 3:12

    • בְּזַ֖עַםbezaampreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in indignation

Zephaniah

one use
  • Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.

    Zephaniah 3:8

    • זַעְמִי֙za'minoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: indignation my

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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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