עָשַׁן ʻâshan — to smoke, whether literal or figurative
Translated in the KJV as be angry smoke.
a primitive root; to smoke, whether literal or figurative.
ʻâshan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 2
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›