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Genesis 27:45

עַד שׁוּב אַף אָחִיךָ מִמְּךָ וְ שָׁכַח אֵת אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ לֹּו וְ שָׁלַחְתִּי וּ לְקַחְתִּיךָ מִ שָּׁם לָמָה אֶשְׁכַּל גַּם שְׁנֵיכֶם יֹום אֶחָד
until the turning back of the nostril920 of your brother from-yourself, and he has forgotten אֶת-whom you have made to-himself, and I have sent and I have taken you from there. Why am I miscarrying also two of yourselves hot-one one?`921
920

Strong’s #639, aph. Nostril. In the singular. Hebrews described the emotion of anger—an abstract word—with the word nostril likely because of how the nostrils tend to flare when someone is angry. But there is more to the enigma than mere emotion.