Word study
Enraged
8 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “enraged”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “enraged” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- כַּעַס kaasbe vexed, angrytranslated this way 3 times of its 53 uses · Strong’s H3707Verb · Translated: provoke me to anger 9, provoked 8, provoking him to anger 6, provoking 6Full study and all 52 verses →
Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Psalm 78:58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- חָרָה chârâhburn, be kindledtranslated this way 2 times of its 89 uses · Strong’s H2734Verb · Translated: burned 26, angry 15, kindled 11, furious 6Full study and all 87 verses →
Exodus 32:22 “Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
1 Samuel 20:7 If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
- עָבַר âbarpass over, through, by, pass ontranslated this way 2 times of its 542 uses · Strong’s H5674Verb · Translated: pass 62, crossed 57, cross 52, passed 35Full study and all 487 verses →
- קָצַף qâtsaphbe wrothtranslated this way 2 times of its 33 uses · Strong’s H7107Verb · Translated: angry 18, grew angry 2, provoked 2Full study and all 32 verses →
Isaiah 8:21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
Isaiah 57:17 I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
- סָעַר sâarstorm, ragetranslated this way 1 time of its 7 uses · Strong’s H5590Verb · Translated: became enraged 1, lashed by storms 1, blown 1, worse 1Full study and all 7 verses →
2 Kings 6:11 For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
- זַעַף zaaphstorming, raging, ragetranslated this way 1 time of its 6 uses · Strong’s H2197Noun · Translated: rage 3, enraged 1, wrath 1, raging 1Full study and all 6 verses →
2 Chronicles 16:10 Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- זָעַף zâaphbe out of humour, vexed; be enragedtranslated this way 1 time of its 5 uses · Strong’s H2196Verb · Translated: distraught 1, enraged 1, raged 1, rages 1Full study and all 4 verses →
2 Chronicles 26:19 Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
- רָגַז râgazbe agitated, quiver, quake, be excited, perturbedtranslated this way 1 time of its 41 uses · Strong’s H7264Verb · Translated: tremble 10, trembled 5, disturbed 3, shaken 2Full study and all 40 verses →
Ezekiel 16:43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
Greek words (New Testament)
- ὀργίζω orgízōI irritate, provoke, am angrytranslated this way 3 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G3710Verb · Translated: enraged 3, angry 2, became angry 2, anger 1Full study and all 8 verses →
Matthew 22:7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
Revelation 11:18 The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great— and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
- διαπρίω diapríōI cut to the quicktranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G1282Verb · Translated: enraged 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Acts 5:33 When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
Acts 7:54 On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- πλήθω plḗthōI filltranslated this way 1 time of its 23 uses · Strong’s G4130Verb · Translated: filled 16, complete 2, came 2, passed 1Full study and all 23 verses →
Luke 4:28 On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.
- θυμός thymósan outburst of passion, wrathtranslated this way 1 time of its 17 uses · Strong’s G2372Noun · Translated: rage 4, wrath 4, anger 3, fury 3Full study and all 17 verses →
Acts 19:28 When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.