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title: כַּעַס — vexation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּעַס (3708), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: vexation. BDB 1906: n.m. vexation, anger. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּעַס

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«כַּעַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **vexation** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 21 times · **Key:** 3708 · **BDB:** כַּ֫עַס

### Glosses

provocation (5); anger (4); vexation (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

vexation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3708/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. vexation, anger [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3708/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. vexation, anger;—כ׳ Dt 32:27 + 13 times; כָּ֑עַס Pr 21:19 Ec 1:18; sf. כַּעְסִי 1 S 1:16 כַּעַסְךָ ψ 85:5, כַּעְסוֹ Pr 12:16 1 K 15:30; pl. כְּעָסִים 2 K 23:26.—vexation: of men, especially caused by unmerited treatment, 1 S 1:6, 16 Pr 12:16; 17:25; 21:19; 27:3 Ec 7:9. vexation, anger of Yahweh (caused especially by worship of other gods) 1 K 15:30; 21:22 2 K 23:26; כ׳ עִמָּנוּ ψ 85:5 anger (of Yahweh) with us; כ׳ בָּנָיו Dt 32:19 anger against his sons, כ׳ אוֹיֵב v 27 anger against the enemy (both obj. gen. see Di; RV provocation of, cf. Dr); כ׳ קָרְבָּנָם Ez 20:28 provocation of their offering (so RV but Co del., rightly). vexation, grief ψ 6:8; 10:14; 31:10 Ec 1:18; 2:23; 7:3; 11:10, also כעס 5:16 acc. Ew al.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּעַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3708/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.8/)

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עָֽשְׁשָׁ֣ה מִכַּ֣עַס עֵינִ֑י עָֽ֝תְקָ֗ה בְּכָל־צוֹרְרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* it.has.wasted.away from grief eye my it.has.grown.weak with all foes my

*JPS 1917:* Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

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[Proverbs 21:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.19/)

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ט֗וֹב שֶׁ֥בֶת בְּאֶֽרֶץ־מִדְבָּ֑ר מֵאֵ֖שֶׁת מִדְיָנִ֣ים וָכָֽעַס׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good to.dwell in a.land of.wilderness more than.a.woman of.contentions and anger

*JPS 1917:* It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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