וַיִּ֖חַר (way·yi·ḥar) in Jonah 4:1: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
וַיִּ֖חַר (way·yi·ḥar) in Jonah 4:1
Source Word
At Jonah 4:1, the source token וַיִּ֖חַר is H2734, Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
He became angry idiomatically renders the verb's image of heat with Jonah as singular subject. Jonah reacts to Nineveh's deliverance as a grievous wrong, exposing the conflict between his desires and God's compassion.
How To Communicate It
Explain the heat idiom and evaluate this anger by its object: Jonah is furious that God has shown compassion.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not use the verb's common anger sense to claim that all anger is sinful or that intense feeling excuses Jonah's posture.
- The root can describe heat or kindled anger; Jonah's displeasure and later prayer establish the emotional sense.
- Read and he became angry within Jonah 4:1 as this H2734 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Qal
ConsecImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Conjunction w
None
The consecutive-imperfect presents anger arising as the next development after his negative evaluation of mercy.
The third masculine singular subject is Jonah, and the idiom pictures anger becoming hot or kindled.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Jonah as the one whose displeasure flares into anger
His response to God sparing repentant Nineveh
The waw-consecutive Qal verb advances from Jonah's great displeasure to the kindling of his anger.
The form does not validate his anger or teach that every experience of anger is identical to Jonah's.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: Jonah reacts to Nineveh's deliverance as a grievous wrong, exposing the conflict between his desires and God's compassion.
The third masculine singular subject is Jonah, and the idiom pictures anger becoming hot or kindled.. The waw-consecutive Qal verb advances from Jonah's great displeasure to the kindling of his anger.. Attached to Jonah as the one whose displeasure flares into anger. Governed by his response to God sparing repentant Nineveh. The form does not validate his anger or teach that every experience of anger is identical to Jonah's.
Why does the verse pair great displeasure with became angry? The sequence shows Jonah's judgment of God's mercy intensifying into a heated personal response.
Direct: He became angry idiomatically renders the verb's image of heat with Jonah as singular subject.
The root can describe heat or kindled anger; Jonah's displeasure and later prayer establish the emotional sense. The grammar marks onset in the narrative but does not measure how long the anger lasts.
Anger verb makes every anger sinful: Moral evaluation depends on cause and expression; Jonah's resentment of mercy is the issue here. strong emotion removes accountability: The Lord questions Jonah's right to be angry rather than excusing him because the feeling is intense.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Jonah 4:1, the source token וַיִּ֖חַר is H2734, Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
חָרָה is the lemma behind and he became angry here. Within Jonah 4:1, H2734 retains this exact lexical identity.
The third masculine singular subject is Jonah, and the idiom pictures anger becoming hot or kindled.
Jonah reacts to Nineveh's deliverance as a grievous wrong, exposing the conflict between his desires and God's compassion.
Zeal can be disordered when it resents mercy, and God answers such anger with searching moral questions.
Explain the heat idiom and evaluate this anger by its object: Jonah is furious that God has shown compassion.
Do not use the verb's common anger sense to claim that all anger is sinful or that intense feeling excuses Jonah's posture.