The NOSE — and therefore ANGER, because Hebrew locates rage in the flaring, snorting nostril. 'Burning of the AF' (charon af / chori-af) is the standard idiom for fury: Moses leaves Pharaoh 'in BURNING ANGER' (Exodus 11:8), and the same phrase is used far more often of God. ⚠️ The idiom shapes one of the Bible's great self-descriptions: God is erekh APAYIM, 'LONG OF NOSTRILS' (Exodus 34:6) — slow to anger, a long fuse before the burn — which the KJV renders 'longsuffering' and most versions 'slow to anger,' losing the picture. Proverbs keeps it physical: 'he who is LONG OF NOSTRILS is better than the mighty' (16:32). → first discussed at Exod 11:8