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Lexicon :: Strong's H3707 - kāʿas

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כָּעַס
Transliteration
kāʿas
Pronunciation
kaw-as'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1016

Strong’s Definitions

כַּעַס kaʻaç, kaw-as'; a primitive root; to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant:—be angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke (to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H3707 in the following manner: anger (43x), provoked (3x), angry (2x), grieved (1x), indignation (1x), sorrow (1x), vex (1x), wrath (1x), wroth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H3707 in the following manner: anger (43x), provoked (3x), angry (2x), grieved (1x), indignation (1x), sorrow (1x), vex (1x), wrath (1x), wroth (1x).
  1. to be angry, be vexed, be indignant, be wroth, be grieved, provoke to anger and wrath

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be vexed, be indignant

      2. to be angry

    2. (Piel) to provoke to anger

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to vex

      2. to vex, provoke to anger

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כַּעַס kaʻaç, kaw-as'; a primitive root; to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant:—be angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke (to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.
STRONGS H3707: Abbreviations
כָּעַס verb be vexed, angry (Late Hebrew כָּעַס, Aramaic כְּעַם (not Syriac)); —
Qal Perfect כ׳ Psalm 112:10; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Imperfect וַיִּכְעַס Nehemiah 3:33 [Nehemiah 4:1]; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 1st person singular אֶכְעַס Ezekiel 16:42; Infinitive לִכְעוֺם Ecclesiastes 7:9. —
1. be vexed, indignant Psalm 112:10; Nehemiah 3:33 [Nehemiah 4:1]; Ecclesiastes 5:16.
2. be angry Ezekiel 16:42; Ecclesiastes 7:9, with אֶל person 2 Chronicles 16:10.
Piel. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular suffix כִּעֲסַתָּה 1 Samuel 1:6; 3rd person masculine plural suffix כִּעֲסוּנִי Deuteronomy 32:21 provoke to anger.
Hiph. Perfect הִכְעִיס Hosea 12:15 [Hosea 12:14]; 1 Kings 15:30; suffix הִכְעִיסוֺ 2 Kings 23:26 + 4 times Perfect; הַכְעִסֵו֯נִי Jeremiah 25:7; (scribal error for תַּכְעִיסוּני according to SS); Imperfect וַיַּכְעֵס 1 Kings 22:54 [1 Kings 22:53]; 2 Chronicles 28:25; 3rd person feminine singular suffix תַּכְעִיסֶנָּה 1 Samuel 1:7 + 6 times Imperfect; Infinitive construct הַכְעִיס 1 Kings 16:13 + 5 times; suffix הַכְעִ(י)סֵנִי Jeremiah 7:18 + 11 times, + 6 times suffixes; Participle plural מַכְעִיסִים Jeremiah 7:19 + 4 times
1. vex, with accusative pers 1 Samuel 1:7; Ezekiel 32:9.
2. vex, provoke to anger, especially of provoking Yahweh by workship of other gods Judges 2:12; 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Kings 14:15; 1 Kings 16:33; 1 Kings 22:54; 2 Kings 17:11; 2 Kings 23:19; 2 Chronicles 28:25; Nehemiah 3:37; Jeremiah 7:18, 19; Jeremiah 11:17; Jeremiah 32:29, 32; Jeremiah 44:3; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 16:26; Isaiah 65:3; Hosea 12:15 [Hosea 12:14]; with בּ instrumental בְּתוֺעֵבֹת Deuteronomy 32:16; בְּהַבְלֵיהֶם Deuteronomy 32:21; 1 Kings 16:13, 26; בחטאתם 1 Kings 16:2; יד(יו) במעשׂ(י) Deuteronomy 31:29; 1 Kings 16:7; Jeremiah 25:6, 7; Jeremiah 32:30; Jeremiah 44:8; בכל מעשׂ(ה) ידיהם 2 Kings 22:17 2 Chronicles 34:25; בבמות Psalm 78:58; בפסיליהם Jeremiah 8:19; במעלליהם Psalm 106:29; compare the phrases להכעיס(וׅ עשׂה הרע(ה) בעיני י׳ do the evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke (him) to anger Deuteronomy 4:25; Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 31:29; 1 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6 2 Chronicles 33:6; so מכעסים 2 Kings 21:15; Jeremiah 32:30; אשׁר הכעיס כעס (יםׅ 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 21:22; 2 Kings 23:26. — The phrase is characteristic of D Jeremiah and the compiler of Kings; see DrIntr 191; Deuteronomy 4:25 Holzeini. Hexateuch 287.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

4:25; 4:25; 9:18; 31:29; 31:29; 32:16; 32:21; 32:21

Judges

2:12

1 Samuel

1:6; 1:7; 1:7

1 Kings

14:9; 14:15; 15:30; 15:30; 16:2; 16:7; 16:7; 16:13; 16:13; 16:26; 16:33; 21:22; 22:53

2 Kings

17:11; 17:17; 21:6; 21:15; 22:17; 23:19; 23:26; 23:26

2 Chronicles

16:10; 16:10; 28:25; 28:25; 33:6; 34:25

Nehemiah

4:1; 4:1

Psalms

78:58; 106:29; 112:10; 112:10

Ecclesiastes

5:16; 5:16; 7:9; 7:9

Isaiah

65:3

Jeremiah

7:18; 7:18; 7:19; 7:19; 8:19; 11:17; 25:6; 25:7; 25:7; 32:29; 32:30; 32:30; 32:32; 44:3; 44:8

Ezekiel

8:17; 16:26; 16:42; 16:42; 32:9

Hosea

12:14; 12:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3707 matches the Hebrew כָּעַס (kāʿas),
which occurs 55 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 4:25–Eze 16:26)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 -

“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, angering him,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 -

“I fell down like the first time in the presence of the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the LORD’s sight and angering him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 -

“For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the LORD’s sight, angering him with what your hands have made.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 -

They provoked his jealousy with different gods;

they enraged him with detestable practices.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 -

“They have provoked my jealousy

with what is not a god;[fn]

they have enraged me with their worthless idols.

So I will provoke their jealousy

with what is not a people;[fn]

I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 -

and abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They angered the LORD,

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 -

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7 -

Year after year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival taunted her in this way. Hannah would weep and would not eat.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 -

“You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to anger me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung me behind your back.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 -

“For the LORD will strike Israel so that they will[fn] shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 -

This was because Jeroboam had angered[fn] the LORD God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 -

“Because I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel, but you have walked in the ways of Jeroboam and have caused my people Israel to sin, angering me with their sins,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 -

But through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani the word of the LORD also had come against Baasha and against his house because of all the evil he had done in the LORD’s sight. His actions angered the LORD, and Baasha’s house became like the house of Jeroboam, because he had struck it down.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 -

This happened because of all the sins of Baasha and those of his son Elah, which they committed and caused Israel to commit, angering the LORD God of Israel with their worthless idols.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 -

He walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat in every respect and continued in his sins that he caused Israel to commit, angering the LORD God of Israel with their worthless idols.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 -

Ahab also made an Asherah pole. Ahab did more to anger the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 -

“I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have angered me and caused Israel to sin.’

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:53 -

He served Baal and bowed in worship to him. He angered the LORD God of Israel just as his father had done.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 -

They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 -

They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire[fn] and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight and angered him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 -

He sacrificed his son in the fire,[fn] practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the LORD’s sight, angering him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 -

“because they have done what is evil in my sight and have angered me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’ ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:17 -

“because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods in order to anger me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 -

Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to anger the LORD. Josiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 -

In spite of all that, the LORD did not turn from the fury of his intense burning anger, which burned against Judah because of all the affronts with which Manasseh had angered him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 -

Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison[fn] because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25 -

He made high places in every city of Judah to offer incense to other gods, and he angered the LORD, the God of his ancestors.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6 -

He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the LORD’s sight, angering him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:25 -

“because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods so as to anger me with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:1 -

When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious. He mocked the Jews

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:5 -

Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from your sight, because they have angered[fn] the builders.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 -

They enraged him with their high places

and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29 -

They angered the LORD with their deeds,

and a plague broke out against them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10 -

The wicked one will see it and be angry;

he will gnash his teeth in despair.

The desire of the wicked leads to ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 -

What is more, he eats in darkness all his days, with much frustration, sickness, and anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 -

Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry,

for anger abides in the heart of fools.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 -

“These people continually anger me

to my face,

sacrificing in gardens,

burning incense on bricks,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 -

“The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven,[fn] and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke me to anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:19 -

“But are they really provoking me? ” This is the LORD’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 -

Listen ​— ​the cry of my dear people

from a faraway land,

“Is the LORD no longer in Zion,

her King not within her? ”

Why have they angered me

with their carved images,

with their worthless foreign idols?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 -

“The LORD of Armies who planted you has decreed disaster against you, because of the disaster[fn] the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves when they angered me by burning incense to Baal.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 -

“Do not follow other gods to serve them and to bow in worship to them, and do not anger me by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:7 -

“ ‘But you have not obeyed me’ ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​‘with the result that you have angered me by the work of your hands and brought disaster on yourselves.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 -

“The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:30 -

“From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in my sight! They have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 -

“because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me ​— ​they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 -

“because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 -

“You are angering me by the work of your hands. You are burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to stay for a while. As a result, you will be cut off and become an example for cursing and insult among all the nations of earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 -

And he said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable acts they are doing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly anger me, even putting the branch to their nose?[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 -

“You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to anger me.


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