# H2194 זָעַם

זָעַם (zâʻam), Strong’s H2194: properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged KJV: abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.. Occurs 12 times.

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*zâʻam* — properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged

KJV: abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- זָעַם vb. be indignant
- [Qal]
- 1 be indignant, have indignation
- 2 express indignation in speech, denounce, curse
- Niph. face stirred with indignation.

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=7) — He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East…
- [Numbers 23:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=8) — How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
- [Isaiah 66:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/66?v=14) — You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. The LORD’s hand will…
- [Micah 6:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/6?v=10) — Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short efah that is accursed?
- [Zechariah 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/1?v=12) — Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of…
- [Malachi 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/1?v=4) — Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Hosts says, “They…
- [Psalms 7:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/7?v=12) — God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
- [Proverbs 22:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/22?v=14) — The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.
- [Proverbs 24:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/24?v=24) — He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
- [Proverbs 25:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/25?v=23) — The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.