# H639 אַף

אַף (ʼaph), Strong’s H639: properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire KJV: anger(-gry), [phrase] before, countenance…

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*ʼaph* — properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

KJV: anger(-gry), [phrase] before, countenance, face, [phrase] forebearing, forehead…

Derived from [אָנַף ʼânaph](https://besorah.bible/word/H599) (to breathe hard, i.e. be enraged)

Occurs 276 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אַף 277 n.m. nostril, nose, face, anger
- 1 nostril, as organ of breathing
- 2 Dn. face
- 3 mostly anger

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7) — The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…
- [Genesis 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=19) — You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…
- [Genesis 7:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=22) — All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
- [Genesis 19:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=1) — The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed…
- [Genesis 24:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=47) — I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to…
- [Genesis 27:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=45) — until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you…
- [Genesis 30:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=2) — Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the…
- [Genesis 39:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=19) — When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his…
- [Genesis 42:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=6) — Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and…
- [Genesis 44:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=18) — Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t…