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Lexicon :: Strong's H3707 - kāʿas

Aa
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 - If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 - The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7 - And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 - But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 - And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - Because I took you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have gone in the ways of Jeroboam, and made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:53 - He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:17 - Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 - Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25 - And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6 - More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:25 - Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:1 - Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:5 - Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 - They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29 - So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10 - The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 - A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:19 - Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 - For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:7 - But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:30 - For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.

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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 make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

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