Definition

to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• be angry
• be grieved
• take indignation
• provoke (to anger
• unto wrath)
• have sorrow
• vex
• be wroth

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

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