za.aph denotes intense anger directed against people, and once describes the sea’s violent raging.

The attested noun use denotes intense anger in human, royal, and divine contexts: Asa’s response to the seer, an army’s killing, a king’s threatening anger, and the LORD’s anger. A verbal occurrence applies the term to the sea’s raging after Jonah is thrown overboard.

1. Intense anger directed at people · dominant

   The masculine singular noun marks anger in confrontations and judgment: in 2 Chronicles 16:10 the APB renders Asa as “enraged” with the seer, while 2 Chronicles 28:9 describes killing “in a rage.” In Proverbs 19:12 it is the king’s threatening anger, and in Isaiah 30:30 and Micah 7:9 the construct noun occurs in clauses concerning the LORD’s anger.

   2 Chronicles 16:102 Chronicles 28:9Isaiah 30:30Micah 7:9Proverbs 19:12
2. The sea's violent raging · rare

   In Jonah 1:15 the Qal infinitive construct describes the sea after Jonah is thrown into it; the APB renders the result as the sea ceasing from “its raging.”

   Jonah 1:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the noun contexts with “angry,” “enraged,” “rage,” and “furious anger,” and presents Jonah 1:15 with “raging.” These are verse-level renderings rather than fixed equivalents.