Strong’s H2196 · Hebrew
זָעַף
zâʻaph · zaw-af'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning properly, to boil up, i.e. (figuratively) to be peevish or angry
In the King James Version fret, sad, worse liking, be wroth.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 40:6And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
- Proverbs 19:3The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
- Daniel 1:10And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.