זָעַף zâʻaph — properly, to boil up, i.e. (figuratively) to be peevish or angry
Translated in the KJV as fret, sad, worse liking, be wroth.
a primitive root; properly, to boil up, i.e. (figuratively) to be peevish or angry.
zâʻaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 2Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
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.
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
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 ›