Definition

vexation

Etymology

or (in Job) כַּעַשׂ; from H3707 (כַּעַס);

Where the KJV renders it

• anger
• angry
• grief
• indignation
• provocation
• provoking
• sore
• sorrow
• spite
• wrath

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.