Vexation
כַּ֫עַסStrong’s H3708kaas (ka-as)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaas is the Hebrew word usually translated “vexation”, “provocation of” and “from grief”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.”
Meaning
- Anger, vexation
- Anger, vexation, provocation, griefvexation · vexation, grief, frustration
How it's translated
- vexation 3
- provocation of 2
- from grief 2
- and vexation 2
- from provocation of 1
- provocation 1
- and provocation my 1
- by provocation his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 5
- Job 4
- Psalms 4
- Proverbs 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Samuel 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
- 1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 1:16Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
- 1 Kings 15:30Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
- 1 Kings 21:22And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
- 2 Kings 23:26Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּ֫עַס kaas · vexation
anger, vexation Also means: ka.as (כַּ֫עַשׂ "vexation" H3708B)
כַּ֫עַשׂ kaas · vexation
1) anger, vexation, provocation, grief 1a) vexation 1a1) of men 1a2) of God 1b) vexation, grief, frustration
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “provocation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROVOCA'TION, noun
[Latin provacatio. See Provoke.]
- Any thing that excites anger; the cause of resentment.
- The act of exciting anger.
- An appeal to a court or judge. [A Latinism, not now used.]
- Incitement. [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.