424 DEENA GRANT B i b l e depicts an emotional God who is invulnerable to human transgression. On the contrary, God transforms His hmj into an instrument of divine punishment 23. College of Arts and Sciences Deena GRANT Barry University, USA SUMMARY The term, hmj, is a frequent descriptor of anger in the Bible. Notably, its syntactic context depends on whether hmj describes human anger or the anger of God. The syntax of human hmj highlights the experience of being aggrieved whereas the syntax of divine hmj emphasizes the consequence of provocation. As such, human hmj tends to be the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of passive verbs that describe the experience of being provoked. By contrast, divine hmj tends to be the object of transitive verbs and the subject of passive verbs that describe God’s reprisal. Additionally, divine hmj occurs as part of the curious construct “cup of hmj ”. We believe that these observations reflect an underlying struggle to reconcile the anthropomorphic idea of an emotional God with an omnipotent and invulnerable deity. On anger as a weapon of God see Exod 15,3-8; Isa 10,5-6; Jer 21,6; 23 Hab 3,8-15; Ps 18,7-16.