כַּעַסkaʻaç
be vexed, angry
Pronunciation: kaw-as' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3707
Meanings
Qal
1. be vexed, indignant (Psalms 112:10; Nehemiah 3:33; Ecclesiastes 5:16)
2. be angry (Ezekiel 16:42; Ecclesiastes 7:9; 2 Chronicles 16:10)
Piel.: provoke to anger. (1 Samuel 1:6; Deuteronomy 32:21)
Hiph`il
1. vex (1 Samuel 1:7; Ezekiel 32:9)
2. vex, provoke to anger (Judges 2:12; Judges 1:9; Judges 14:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 54 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 4:25 “In the future, when you have children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time, do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. This is evil in the sight of the Lord your God and will arouse his anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:18 “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn from the way I have commanded you to follow. In the days to come, disaster will come down on you, for you will do what is evil in the Lord’s sight, making him very angry with your actions.”
- Deuteronomy 32:16 They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.
- Deuteronomy 32:21 They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
- Judges 2:12 They abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods, worshiping the gods of the people around them. And they angered the Lord.
See every passage
- Deuteronomy 4:25, 9:18, 31:29, 32:16, 32:21
- Judges 2:12
- 1 Samuel 1:6, 1:7
- 1 Kings 14:9, 14:15, 15:30, 16:2, 16:7, 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
- 2 Chronicles 16:10, 28:25, 33:6, 34:25
- Nehemiah 4:1, 4:5
- Psalms 78:58, 106:29, 112:10
- Ecclesiastes 5:17, 7:9
- Isaiah 65:3
- Jeremiah 7:18, 7:19, 8:19, 11:17, 25:6, 25:7, 32:29, 32:30, 32:32, 44:3, 44:8
- Ezekiel 8:17, 16:26, 16:42, 32:9
- Hosea 12:14
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).