אַףʼaph

אַף: nostril, nose, face, anger

Pronunciation: af · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H639

Meanings

1. nostril, nose (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 7:22; Job 27:3)

b as place of ring for ornament (Genesis 24:47; Isaiah 3:21; Ezekiel 16:12)

2. face (Genesis 19:1; Genesis 42:6; Genesis 48:12)

3. anger (Genesis 27:45; Genesis 49:6; Genesis 49:7)

אַף: see below אנף

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 276 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
  • Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Genesis 7:22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.
  • Genesis 19:1 That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
  • Genesis 24:47 “Then I asked, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, and my grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.’ So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
  • Genesis 27:45 When he calms down and forgets what you have done to him, I will send for you to come back. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
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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).