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Is Wrath a More Intense Type of Anger?
In English wrath just seems way more intense than anger. That's not true in Hebrew. In Hebrew lots of things grow hot whether it's the verb hara that's used with nose or the verb hamam. Neither word indicates more heat than other. They're just they're both words to get hot. So you're right, when we read wrath in our English Bibles that doesn't mean more angry than another word for anger. There's also a couple words in Hebrew that mean anger and they refer to the emotion of angernot to the physical response that somebody feels. One is ketsaf and actually here I found a passage where almost all of them appear together. This is in