Qeṣep names wrath in selected divine, prayer and human-conflict passages, but the shared identifier also includes a separately documented object use. Isaiah 54:8 speaks of a surge of anger within an address that promises everlasting kindness and compassion.
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Qeṣep names wrath in selected divine, prayer and human-conflict passages, but the shared identifier also includes a separately documented object use. Isaiah 54:8 speaks of a surge of anger within an address that promises everlasting kindness and compassion.
The BSB source-word alignment has 29 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include wrath (7), and wrath (3), am fiercely angry (1), and anger (1), anger (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Numbers 1:53. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Chronicles (6), Jeremiah (4), Isaiah (3), Numbers (3).
Qeṣep names wrath in selected divine, prayer and human-conflict passages, but the shared identifier also includes a separately documented object use. Isaiah 54:8 speaks of a surge of anger within an address that promises everlasting kindness and compassion. Psalm 38:1 asks the Lord not to rebuke in anger or discipline in wrath. Neither passage makes wrath an unrestricted verdict about every person who suffers bodily pain.
Esther 1:18 records Memucan predicting contempt and wrath in his counsel about Vashti. That is a court official's argument for a proposed royal response, not an instruction from God requiring households to enforce his reasoning. Hosea 10:7 compares Samaria's king to a twig carried on water, using the separately documented chip or splinter sense. Teaching should retain these distinctions instead of deriving divine anger from a broken-stick image or treating every speech about wrath as the narrator's approved moral judgment.
Divine anger answered by compassion, a sufferer's appeal, court counsel predicting conflict and a fragile-object comparison belong to distinct contexts. Wrath and the separately documented chip use must not be merged into one theological metaphor through their shared identifier.
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer.
A surge of anger is contrasted with everlasting kindness and promised compassion from the Redeemer. The surrounding covenant address must remain with the judgment language.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
The psalmist asks that rebuke and discipline not come in anger or wrath. This particular penitential prayer does not establish the cause of every present person's illness.
This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.
Memucan predicts contempt and wrath while advocating a response to Vashti. His attributed court argument cannot become divine endorsement of controlling every household's women.
Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
Samaria's king is compared to a twig on the water in a judgment oracle. The object image belongs to the separate chip entry, not an anger metaphor inferred from a shared number.
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Hebrew word. Wrath as something that breaks off and splinters—divine indignation sharp and fragmenting.
Wrath as something that breaks off and splinters—divine indignation sharp and fragmenting.
a splinter (as chipped off); figuratively, rage or strife BDB: wrath Usage: foam, indignation, × sore, wrath.
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קֶצֶף is built from this root:
Expresses the intensity of divine judgment against rebellion.Isaiah 34:1-8
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Isaiah 54 joins a brief surge of anger to enduring kindness and the Redeemer's compassion, so a definition focused on judgment alone would omit the address's stated reassurance. Psalm 38 gives another setting: a particular speaker confesses and pleads beneath a burden. The prayer's connection between that speaker's sin and distress should not become a diagnosis of every sick person's spiritual condition.
Esther's court scene requires a different distinction. Memucan's predicted wrath is part of his argument, and its inclusion in the narrative does not make his household policy God's command. Hosea's twig image belongs to a separately documented lexical entry and cannot supply a speculative etymology for wrath. Romans 12:17-21 provides a Christian comparison in which God's judgment accompanies a prohibition on personal vengeance and a command to care for enemies. Anger language therefore cannot be used as permission for the reader's retaliation or as authority for controlling another person.
Isa.54.8
Licensed lexical entries separately document wrath and a chip or splinter under this identifier. Similar written form and shared lookup number do not establish that anger derives from the object image; direct constructions and referents govern the selected explanation.
Romans 12:17-21 tells believers to refrain from personal vengeance, leave judgment to God and meet an enemy's need with care. This supplies a Christian boundary for applying wrath passages. It does not identify every qeṣep statement as that same Greek term or transfer divine judgment authority to a reader seeking retaliation.