כַּעַסkaʻaç
כַּ֫עַס: vexation, anger
Pronunciation: kah'-as · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3708
Meanings
1. of men, especially caused by unmerited treatment (1 Samuel 1:6; 1 Samuel 1:16; Proverbs 12:16)
2. vexation, anger of Yahweh (caused especially by worship of other gods) (1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 21:22; 2 Kings 23:26)
3. vexation, grief (Psalms 6:8; Psalms 10:14; Psalms 31:10)
כַּ֫עַשׂ: (dialectic variation of כַּעַם, only in Job)
1. vexation, grief, of men (Job 5:2; Proverbs 12:16; Proverbs 27:3)
2. vexation, anger, of God (Job 10:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:19 “The Lord saw this and drew back, provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
- Deuteronomy 32:27 But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy, who might misunderstand and say, “Our own power has triumphed! The Lord had nothing to do with this!”’
- 1 Samuel 1:6 So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children.
- 1 Samuel 1:16 Don’t think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”
- 1 Kings 15:30 This was done because Jeroboam had provoked the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, by the sins he had committed and the sins he had led Israel to commit.
- 1 Kings 21:22 I am going to destroy your family as I did the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat and the family of Baasha son of Ahijah, for you have made me very angry and have led Israel into sin.’
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).