אַףʼaph
אַף: also, yea, denoting addition, especially of something greater
Pronunciation: af · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H637
Meanings
1. very rare in plain prose (in which גַּם is more usual) (Genesis 40:16; Numbers 16:14; Deuteronomy 2:11)
2. yea, à fortiori, the more so, how much more!, how much less! (2 Samuel 4:10; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 15:5)
ᵑ7: also, always וְאַף (Daniel 6:23; Ezra 5:10; Ezra 5:14; Ezra 6:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 134 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
- Genesis 18:13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’
- Genesis 18:23 Abraham approached him and said, “Will you sweep away both the righteous and the wicked?
- Genesis 18:24 Suppose you find fifty righteous people living there in the city—will you still sweep it away and not spare it for their sakes?
- Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.
- Leviticus 26:16 I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them.
See every passage
- Genesis 3:1, 18:13, 18:23, 18:24, 40:16
- Leviticus 26:16, 26:24, 26:28, 26:39, 26:40, 26:41, 26:42, 26:44
- Numbers 16:14
- Deuteronomy 2:11, 2:20, 15:17, 31:27, 33:3, 33:20, 33:28
- Judges 5:29
- 1 Samuel 2:7, 14:30, 21:5, 23:3
- 2 Samuel 4:11, 16:11, 20:14
- 1 Kings 8:27
- 2 Kings 2:14, 5:13
- 1 Chronicles 8:32, 9:38, 16:30
- 2 Chronicles 6:18, 12:5, 32:15
- Nehemiah 2:18, 9:18, 13:15
- Esther 5:12
- Job 4:19, 6:27, 9:14, 14:3, 15:4, 15:16, 19:4, 25:6, 32:10, 32:17, 34:12, 34:17, 35:14, 36:16, 36:29, 36:33, 37:1, 37:11, 40:8
- Psalms 16:6, 16:7, 16:9, 18:48, 44:9, 58:2, 65:13, 68:8, 68:16, 68:18, 74:16, 77:16, 77:17, 89:5, 89:11, 89:21, 89:27, 89:43, 93:1, 96:10, 108:1, 119:3, 135:17
- Proverbs 9:2, 11:31, 15:11, 17:7, 19:7, 19:10, 21:27, 22:19, 23:28
- Ecclesiastes 2:9
- Song of Solomon 1:16
- Isaiah 26:8, 26:9, 26:11, 33:2, 35:2, 40:24, 41:10, 41:23, 41:26, 42:13, 43:7, 43:19, 44:15, 44:16, 44:19, 45:21, 46:6, 46:7, 46:11, 48:12, 48:13, 48:15
- Ezekiel 14:21, 15:5, 23:40
- Amos 2:11
- Habakkuk 2:5, 2:15
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).