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2 Chronicles 26:19
“Then 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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2196 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to boil up, i.e. (figuratively) to be peevish or angry
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- fret, sad, worse liking, be wroth.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּזְעַף֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 5 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 40:6Proverbs 19:3Daniel 1:10
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read זָעַף here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.