בְּנַס
to be angry
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1149 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בנס (bᵉnaç) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to be angry.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Daniel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Daniel 2:12. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1149 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was angry 1×
- American Standard Version: Was angry 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Angry 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was angry 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Peal) to be angry
Word origin
בְּנַס vb. be angry;— Pe. Dn 2:12.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בְּנַס
- (sec. r. of בס, v. בסם) to ferment, get sour; trnsf. to be angry, agitated. Dan. II, 12. Targ. Y. Gen. XL, 2. Targ. Esth. II, 21 בנסו וקצפו (ed. Vien. כְּנַסּוּ, corr. acc.). Ib. IV, 17 ונסס וב׳ (ed. Vien. וכ׳, corr. acc., h. text ויעבר!); v. נְסַס.—Part. pass. בְּנִיס, v. בְּנִיסָא. Denom. בַּסִּין. e.g. Daniel 2:12
נֵס I
- נסס to lift up,
- 1. flag. B. Bath. V, 1, v. אֲדָרָא II. Gen. R. s. 55, beg. (ref. to Ps. LX, 6) כנס הזה וכ׳ like the flag of a ship; ib. (ref. to נסה, Gen. XXII, 1) גדלו כנס וכ׳ he lifted Abraham up like &c.; Yalk. Ps. 777 כנסו של וכ׳ (read: כנס זה); a. e. e.g. Psalms 60:6
- 2. (cmp. אוֹת, מוֹפֵת) sign, wonder, providential event. Nidd. 31ᵃ אפי׳ בעל הנס אינו מכיר בנִסּוֹ even he to whom the providential sign happens, does not recognize it. Yoma 21ᵃ כרובים בנס וכ׳ the cherubs (above the ark in the Solomonic Temple) stood by a miracle. Ib., a. e. נס גדול היה וכ׳ a great miracle was connected with the show-bread which was as fresh at its removal &c. Sot. 47ᵃ, a. fr. נס בתוך נס a double wonder. Ned. 41ᵃ גדול נס שנעשה וכ׳ the wonder of recovery which the sick man experiences, is greater than that which happened to Hananiah, Mishael &c. Sabb. 23ᵃ, a. e. אף הן היו באותו הנס the women, too, were concerned in that wonderful delivery. Ib. ונימעוט נס why not omit the benediction mentioning the wonder (שעשה נסים וכ׳)?; a. v. fr.—Pl. נִסִּים, נִסִּין, נִי׳. Ber. IX, 1 הרואה מקום שנעשו בו נ׳ … ברוך שעשה נ׳ וכ׳ he who sees a place where miracles happened to Israel, must say, Blessed be he who performed wonders &c. Ib. 60ᵃ, a. fr. מעשה נ׳ (abbrev. מ"נ) a miraculous event, v. זָכַר. Yoma 29ᵃ אסתר סוף כל הנ׳ the Book of Esther is the last record of miracles. Taan. 25ᵃ; Snh. 109ᵃ top, v. לָמַד; a. v. fr.
*נֵס II
- island. Deut. R. s. 2, v. נִיסָא.—Pl. נִיסִים, נִיסִין, נֵסִין, v. נִיסָא.
נֵס
- 1. flag, sign, miraculous event. Targ. Y. Num. XXV, 8; a. fr.—Y. Pes. V, 32ᶜ bot. נסא הוה רב a great event (delivery from danger) had occurred; Y. Taan. III, end, 67ᵃ ניסא. Ber. 54ᵃ נ׳ דרבים a providential event which concerns the community, opp. נ׳ דיחיד. Meg. 3ᵇ משום פרסומי נ׳ because it is a duty to proclaim the wonderful event (in the Book of Esther); Sabb. 23ᵇ פרסומי נ׳ to proclaim the wonderful events (of the Maccabean days, by lighting the candles); a. v. fr.—Pl. נִסִּין, נִסַּיָּא, נִסֵּי, נִי׳. Targ. O. Ex. XVII, 15. Targ. Y. II, Num. XXI, 14; a. fr.—Y. Ter. VIII, end, 46ᶜ. Yoma 21ᵃ נ׳ דגואי wonders which happened within the Temple; נ׳ דבראי outside of the Temple. Ib.ᵇ נ׳ דקביעי permanent, regularly recurring wonders; a. fr.
- 2. (= נִסָּיוֹן) trial.—Pl. as ab. Targ. Y. II, Ex. XV, 25.—Y. Maas. Sh. V, end, 55ᶜ (oneirocritical play on נִיסַן) וניסין לית את חמי and thou shalt experience no trials; (Lam. R. to I, 1 רבתי נִסְיוֹנִין (חד מתלמ׳); Ber. 56ᵇ ולא אתית לידי נסיון).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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