עֶבְרָהʻebrâh
overflow, arrogance, fury
Pronunciation: eb-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5678
Meanings
1. overflow, excess, outburst (Proverbs 21:24; Job 40:11)
2. arrogance (Isaiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:20; Jeremiah 48:29)
3. overflowing rage, fury
a. of men (Genesis 49:7; Amos 1:11; Isaiah 14:6)
b. of ׳ י (Hosea 5:10; Hosea 13:11; Habakkuk 3:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 34 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 49:7 A curse on their anger, for it is fierce; a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel. I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob; I will disperse them throughout Israel.
- Job 21:30 Evil people are spared in times of calamity and are allowed to escape disaster.
- Job 40:11 Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.
- Psalms 7:6 Arise, O Lord, in anger! Stand up against the fury of my enemies! Wake up, my God, and bring justice!
- Psalms 78:49 He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
- Psalms 85:3 You held back your fury. You kept back your blazing anger.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).