A-1 | Noun | Strong's Number: g3894 | Greek: parapikrasmos |
Provocation, Provoke:
from para, "amiss" or "from," used intensively, and pikraino, "to make bitter" (pikros, "sharp, bitter"), "provocation," occurs in Hbr 3:8, 15. In the Sept., Psa 95:8.
A-2 | Noun | Strong's Number: g3948 | Greek: paroxusmos |
Provocation, Provoke:
denotes "a stimulation" (Eng., "paroxysm"), (cp. B, No. 2): in Hbr 10:24, "to provoke," lit., "unto a stimulation (of love)."
See CONTENTION, No. 2.
B-1 | Verb | Strong's Number: g3893 | Greek: parapikraino |
Provocation, Provoke:
"to embitter, provoke" (akin to A, No. 1), occurs in Hbr 3:16.
B-2 | Verb | Strong's Number: g3947 | Greek: paroxuno |
Provocation, Provoke:
primarily, "to sharpen" (akin to A, No. 2), is used metaphorically, signifying "to rouse to anger, to provoke," in the Passive Voice, in Act 17:16, RV, "was provoked" (AV, "was stirred"); in 1Cr 13:5, RV, "is not provoked" (the word "easily" in AV, represents no word in the original).
See STIR.
B-3 | Verb | Strong's Number: g2042 | Greek: erethizo |
Provocation, Provoke:
"to excite, stir up, provoke," is used
(a) in a good sense in 2Cr 9:2, AV, "hath provoked," RV, "hath stirred up;"
B-4 | Verb | Strong's Number: g3949 | Greek: parorgizo |
Provocation, Provoke:
"to provoke to wrath:" see ANGER, B, No. 2.
B-5 | Verb | Strong's Number: g3863 | Greek: parazeloo |
Provocation, Provoke:
"to provoke to jealousy:" see JEALOUSY.
B-6 | Verb | Strong's Number: g653 | Greek: apostomatizo |
Provocation, Provoke:
in classical Greek meant "to speak from memory, to dictate to a pupil" (apo, "from," stoma, "a mouth"); in later Greek, "to catechize;" in Luk 11:53, "to provoke (Him) to speak."
B-7 | Verb | Strong's Number: g4292 | Greek: prokaleo |
Provocation, Provoke:
"to call forth," as to a contest, hence "to stir up what is evil in another," occurs in the Middle Voice in Gal 5:26.
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