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# כַּעַס

Biblical Hebrew

**vexation** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

vexation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e2_5b7_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּ֫עַס: n.m. vexation, anger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e2_5b7_5e1/#m2)

**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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: grief (2); vexation (2).

## In the verses

[Job 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.2/#tree)

כִּֽי־לֶֽ֭אֱוִיל יַהֲרָג־כָּ֑עַשׂ וּ֝פֹתֶ֗ה תָּמִ֥ית קִנְאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (to).a fool it.slays vexation and a.simple.\[person\] it.kills jealousy

*JPS 1917:* For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

[Job 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.2/#tree)

ל֗וּ שָׁק֣וֹל יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם יִשְׂאוּ־יָֽחַד׃

*Word for word:* if actually.(weigh) it.will.be.weighed grief my and destruction my in.\[the\] balances people.will.raise together

*JPS 1917:* Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e2_5b7_5e1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e2_5b7_5e1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).