Definition

properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

Etymology

from H599 (אָנַף);

Where the KJV renders it

• anger(-gry)
• before
• countenance
• face
• forebearing
• forehead
• (long-) suffering
• nose
• nostril
• snout
• worthy
• wrath

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.