kaas · provocation, vexation

What it means

kaas (כַּעַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “provocation, vexation”.

What irritates and causes anger or grief.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What makes someone angry, above all what enrages God.
2. Bitter pain one carries inside.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• vexation ×13
• grief ×5
• provocation ×5
• bitterly ×1
• provocations ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Ezekiel×1

• Deuteronomy 32:19

  And YHWH saw and spurned them because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

• Deuteronomy 32:27

  if I did not fear the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misjudge it, lest they say, “Our hand is raised high, and it is not YHWH who has done all this.”’

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  And her rival would provoke her bitterly in order to irritate her, because YHWH had closed up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:16

  Do not regard your servant as a wicked woman, for out of the greatness of my complaint and my grief I have spoken until now.”

• 1 Kings 15:30

  because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and with which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked to anger YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• 1 Kings 21:22

  and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger and made Israel sin.’

• 2 Kings 23:26

  Nevertheless, YHWH did not turn from the burning of his great anger with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

• Job 5:2

  For vexation kills the fool, and jealousy puts to death the simple.

• Job 6:2

  “If only my vexation were truly weighed, and my calamity lifted onto the scales together.

• Job 10:17

  You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation with me; relays and an army are against me.

• Job 17:7

  And my eye has grown dim from vexation, and my limbs are like a shadow, all of them.

• Psalms 6:7

  My eye has wasted away from grief; it has grown old because of all my adversaries.

• Psalms 10:14

  You have seen it, for you look at suffering and grief to put it in your hand; to you the helpless abandons himself; you have been the helper of the orphan.

• Psalms 31:9

  Show me favor, YHWH, for I am in distress; my eye has wasted away with grief, my soul and my belly.

• Psalms 85:4

  Bring us back, Elohim of our salvation, and annul your vexation with us.

• Proverbs 12:16

  A fool: his vexation is known on that very day, but the shrewd man covers disgrace.

• Proverbs 17:25

  A senseless son is vexation to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him.

• Proverbs 21:19

  Better to live in a land of wilderness than with a woman of quarrels and vexation.

• Proverbs 27:3

  Heavy is the stone, and a burden the sand, but the vexation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

• Ecclesiastes 1:18

  For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases pain.

• Ecclesiastes 2:23

  For all his days are pains, and his occupation is vexation; even at night his heart does not lie down. This too is vapor.

• Ecclesiastes 7:3

  Better is grief than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made better.

• Ecclesiastes 7:9

  Do not be hasty in your spirit to be vexed, for vexation rests in the bosom of the senseless.

• Ecclesiastes 11:10

  And remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for youth and the dawn are vapor.

• Ezekiel 20:28

  When I brought them into the land that I had raised my hand to give it to them, they saw every high hill and every thick tree, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, and there they set their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their libations.