Words the Bible translates as vex
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ka'asכָּעַסto be angry, or to be grieved and vexed; the inward state of a stirred-up spirit
+1 more meaning
- to provoke someone to anger; to goad another into fury, most often God
- tsararצָרַרto bind tight, or to be pressed tight: to wrap something up, to be too narrow, or to be squeezed into hardship
+1 more meaning
- to treat as an enemy: to be hostile toward someone, to oppose them as a foe or rival
- atsavעָצַבto be in or cause deep pain, chiefly the inner pain of grief and distress
+1 more meaning
- to shape or fashion something by hand, as a craftsman forms a figure
- qutsקוּץto be sick of someone or something: to feel a revulsion built up past the point of bearing it, whether it comes out as disgust or as dread
Keep looking
Every English meaning beginning with V is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.