Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
vexation
Usage: anger, vexation Also means: ka.as (כַּ֫עַשׂ "vexation" H3708B)
Kaac means “vexation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3708 — horao (“by extension”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3708 כַּעַס כַּעַשׂ (ka`ac) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ka`ac (kah'-as) (or (in Job) kaoas {kah'-as};) n-m. 1. vexation [from 3707] It has 25 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include grief, anger, provoking, provoked, and indignation. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ka`ac (kah'-as) (or (in Job) kaoas {kah'-as};) n-m. 1. vexation [from 3707] KJV: anger, angry, grief, indignation, provocation, provoking, X sore, sorrow, spite, wrath. See also: H3707
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vexation
Usage: anger, vexation Also means: ka.as (כַּ֫עַשׂ "vexation" H3708B)
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.
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.
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.
25 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Were 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.
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3708.
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Were 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.
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
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.
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.
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.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3708, grouped by book.
Kaac (Strong's H3708) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "vexation". ka`ac (kah'-as) (or (in Job) kaoas {kah'-as};) n-m. 1. vexation [from 3707]
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's H3708 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3708 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as grief, anger, provoking, provoked, indignation, and angry. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.