The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Chafe

chaf (mar, "bitter"; hence, bitter of soul, deadly, destructive, ferocious, "as a bear robbed of her whelps"): Occurs only in 2Sa 17:8; used by Hushai to characterize David's supposedly fierce mood at the time of Absalom's armed rebellion.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.