עֶבְרָה
ev.rah (H5678)
fury
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# עֶבְרָה (Evrah): Fury in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word עֶבְרָה (evrah) carries the meaning of "fury"—an intense, forceful anger rather than a mild or passing irritation. With 34 occurrences throughout the biblical text, the word appears frequently enough to represent a significant concept in biblical vocabulary. The term denotes anger at its most extreme and dangerous expression, the kind of emotional state that demands attention and carries weight in narrative and theological contexts. The prevalence of this term across 34 biblical passages suggests that depicting intense anger was important to biblical writers and audiences. Whether describing human rage or divine wrath, evrah captures anger in its most potent form. This consistent usage pattern indicates that the concept of fury—as distinct from milder forms of displeasure—held particular significance in ancient Hebrew thought and communication, making it a word chosen deliberately when the full force of anger needed to be conveyed rather than more measured expressions of discontent.
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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
I know his wrath,” says Yahweh, “that it is nothing; his boastings have done nothing.
The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.