Chafe
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
(2): (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
(3): (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
(4): (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
(5): (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
(6): (n.) Heat excited by friction.
(7): (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.
(8): (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
(9): (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
chāf ( מר , mar , "bitter"; hence, bitter of soul, deadly, destructive, ferocious, "as a bear robbed of her whelps"): Occurs only in 2 Samuel 17:8; used by Hushai to characterize David's supposedly fierce mood at the time of Absalom's armed rebellion.
