Strong's Hebrew · H3707
H3707 kaʻaç
כַּעַס
kaw-as'
to provoke
Looking for Greek G3707 horatós? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3707. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
kaʻaç appears 53 times in Scripture, including Deuteronomy 4:25 and 2 Kings 23:19. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant
In the King James Version
be angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke (to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 53 times in Scripture
“They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.”
“After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—”
“Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’”
“‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’”
“For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.””
“to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,”
“They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.”
“Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.”
“For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.”
“Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
