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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

H3707

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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - For 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 that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 -
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods;
With abominations provoked they him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 -
They 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 that are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7 - And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 - but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 - For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation wherewith he provoked Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - And moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Jehovah against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - and I will make thy 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 hast made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:53 - And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:17 - Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations wherewith Manasseh had provoked him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 - Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25 - And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6 - He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:25 - Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:1 - But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:5 - and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 -
For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29 -
Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;
And the plague brake in upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10 -
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved;
He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away:
The desire of the wicked shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 - a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:19 - Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 - For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:7 - Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:30 - For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.

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