To provoke
כָּעַסStrong’s H3707kaas (ka-as)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaas is the Hebrew word usually translated “provoke to anger me”, “provoke to anger him” and “provoke to anger”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:”
Meaning
- To be angry, be vexed, be indignant, be wroth, be grieved, provoke to anger and wrath(Qal) · (Piel) to provoke to anger · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- to provoke to anger me 12
- to provoke to anger him 6
- to provoke to anger 5
- provoking to anger 3
- and they provoked to anger 2
- and he was angry 2
- they provoked to anger him 1
- they have provoked to anger me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- 1 Kings 10
- 2 Kings 7
- Deuteronomy 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Ezekiel 4
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 31:29For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
- Judges 2:12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
- 1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כָּעַס kaas · to provoke
1) to be angry, be vexed, be indignant, be wroth, be grieved, provoke to anger and wrath 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be vexed, be indignant 1a2) to be angry 1b) (Piel) to provoke to anger 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to vex 1c2) to vex, provoke to anger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “provoke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROVO'KE, verb transitive
[Latin provoco, to call forth; pro and voco, to call.]
- To call into action; to arouse; to excite; as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury; to provoke war.
- To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage.“Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath” Ephesians 6:4
- To excite; to cause; as, to provoke perspiration; to provoke a smile.
- To excite; to stimulate; to increase.
All definitions and other forms of “provoke”
- To challenge.
- To move; to incite; to stir up; to induce by motives. Romans 10:19“Let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works” Hebrews 10:24
- To incite; to rouse; as, to provoke one to anger. Deuteronomy 32:21
PROVO'KE, verb intransitive
To appeal. [A Latinism, not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.