Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Melvin Ely and Naama Zahavi-Ely" <nxzaha AT wm.edu>]

Shalom!  Having somebody's anger burn is standard Biblical Hebrew for that
somebody being angry:  this applies to people as well as God.  Anger is thus
something that happens to one, not something one does.
You get either "chara apo b..." or "chara l..." -- in either case, the angry
person is not the subject of the verb.  To find examples, just search on the
root chet-resh-heh.  I never felt an implication of the anger being
personalized, and again, this language is used of anybody -- individual
people as well as God.

Best wishes

Naama