קָצַף
qa.tsaph (H7107)
be angry
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# H7107 (קָצַף) - "Be Angry" The Hebrew verb קָצַף (qatsaph) denotes the state of being angry, appearing 34 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency indicates it held consistent importance in biblical Hebrew for expressing human and divine emotion. The verb's straightforward definition—"be angry"—suggests a basic emotional response rather than a nuanced term requiring specialized interpretation. The presence of this term across 34 biblical occurrences demonstrates that anger was a significant concept in ancient Hebrew literature, whether describing human reactions or divine responses. The stability of the definition across these instances suggests the word maintained a consistent semantic range, functioning as a standard way to communicate anger without apparent shifts in meaning. However, the lexicon data provided does not indicate whether the word carried particular connotations (such as righteous versus sinful anger) or whether its meaning varied depending on who was angry—human figures or God. Without access to the specific contexts where קָצַף appears, we cannot determine whether the term held particular theological significance or whether certain patterns emerged in its usage. The data confirms only that this was an established and regularly used Hebrew verb for expressing anger, forming part of the standard emotional vocabulary available to biblical writers.
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.
Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?
But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
The man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it; whereas now you will strike Syria just three times.”
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.
In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;