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Strong's H3707 כַּעַס (kaac)

Kaac means “trouble” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3707 — horatos (“visible”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3707
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 13

Strong's H3707 Quick Answer

Strong's H3707 כַּעַס (ka`ac) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ka`ac (kaw-as') v. 1. to trouble 2. (by implication) to grieve, rage, be indignant It has 53 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include provoke, anger, angry, rage, and indignation. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
ka`ac (kaw-as') v. 1. to trouble 2. (by implication) to grieve, rage, be indignant
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
provoke, anger, angry, rage, and indignation

Meaning and Definition

ka`ac (kaw-as') v. 1. to trouble 2. (by implication) to grieve, rage, be indignant [a primitive root] KJV: be angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke (to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.

Original Word
כַּעַס
Transliteration
ka`ac
Derivation
Root: כעס
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3707. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to provoke

Usage: 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

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How Strong's H3707 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ka`ac, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

provoke Deuteronomy 4:25 26× anger Deuteronomy 32:16 18× angry Ecclesiastes 7:9 grieved Psalms 112:10 indignation Nehemiah 4:1 rage 2 Chronicles 16:10

How Strong's H3707 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3707 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3707 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 4:25 KJV

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:

Deuteronomy 9:18 KJV

And 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 31:29 KJV

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 evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3707.

Deuteronomy 4:25 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Deuteronomy 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 31:29 Old Testament, KJV
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 evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 32:16 Old Testament, KJV
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:21 Old Testament, KJV
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 which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Judges 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
1 Kings 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
1 Kings 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
1 Kings 15:30 Old Testament, KJV
Because 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 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
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;
1 Kings 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
1 Kings 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:26 Old Testament, KJV
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
1 Kings 21:22 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
1 Kings 22:53 Old Testament, KJV
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
2 Kings 17:11 Old Testament, KJV
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2 Kings 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 21:15 Old Testament, KJV
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
2 Kings 22:17 Old Testament, KJV
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 my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
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 the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2 Kings 23:26 Old Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding 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.
2 Chronicles 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
2 Chronicles 28:25 Old Testament, KJV
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles 34:25 Old Testament, KJV
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 my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
Nehemiah 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Nehemiah 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 78:58 Old Testament, KJV
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 106:29 Old Testament, KJV
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Psalms 112:10 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Ecclesiastes 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Isaiah 65:3 Old Testament, KJV
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Jeremiah 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their 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.
Jeremiah 7:19 Old Testament, KJV
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah 8:19 Old Testament, KJV
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
Jeremiah 25:6 Old Testament, KJV
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jeremiah 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jeremiah 32:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, 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.
Jeremiah 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:32 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 44:3 Old Testament, KJV
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, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
Jeremiah 44:8 Old Testament, KJV
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Ezekiel 8:17 Old Testament, KJV
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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel 16:26 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:42 Old Testament, KJV
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Ezekiel 32:9 Old Testament, KJV
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
Hosea 12:14 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3707, grouped by book.

Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 10 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H3707 FAQ

What does kaac (כַּעַס) mean?

Kaac (Strong's H3707) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "trouble". ka`ac (kaw-as') v. 1. to trouble 2. (by implication) to grieve, rage, be indignant

How many times is kaac (כַּעַס) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H3707 across 13 books.

Where can I study kaac (כַּעַס) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3707 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate kaac (כַּעַס)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as provoke, anger, angry, rage, indignation, and grieved. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.