Topic
Provocation; Provoke
30 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 14:11ISBE
¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
- Numbers 14:23ISBE
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
- Numbers 16:30ISBE
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
- Numbers 31:20ISBE
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
- Deuteronomy 4:25ISBE
¶ When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him…
- Deuteronomy 9:18ISBE
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 32:16ISBE
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
- 1 Kings 14:9ISBE
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
- 1 Kings 14:15ISBE
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 1 Chronicles 21:1ISBE
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
- Job 16:3ISBE
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
- Psalms 78:17ISBE
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
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- Psalms 78:40 ISBE
- Psalms 78:41 ISBE
- Psalms 78:56 ISBE
- Psalms 95:8 ISBE
- Isaiah 1:4 ISBE
- Isaiah 3:8 ISBE
- 1 Esdras 6:15 ISBE
- Acts 17:16 ISBE
- Romans 10:19 ISBE
- Romans 11:11 ISBE
- Romans 11:14 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 9:2 ISBE
- Ephesians 6:4 ISBE
- Colossians 3:21 ISBE
- Hebrews 3:8 ISBE
- Hebrews 3:15 ISBE
- Hebrews 3:16 ISBE
- Hebrews 10:24 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 33 references
prov-o-ka'-shun, pro-vok': "Provoke," literally, "to call forth," hence, to excite or stir up, whether in a good or bad sense, appears frequently in the Old Testament as the translation of Piel, or Hiphil of ka`ac (noun, ka`ac), in the sense of "to make angry" (De 4:25; 9:18; 1Ki 14:9,15, etc.); sometimes of marah (Isa 3:8), and of other words. In the New Testament we have parazeloo, "to make jealous" (Ro 10:19; 11:11,14); parorgizo, "to make angry" (Eph 6:4; compare Col 3:21); with parapikraino, "to embitter" (Heb 3:16; compare in /RAPC 1Es 6:15), and other Greek words. "Provocation" in Heb 3:8,15 (quoting Ps 95:8) is parapikrasmos, the Septuagint for the Hebrew meribhah. An example of the good sense of the word is in Heb 10:24, "Consider one another to provoke (literally, "to the provoking," here paroxusmos) unto love and good works."
For "provoke" the Revised Version (British and American) has "despise" (Nu 14:11; 31:20), "rebel against" (Ps 78:40); for "provoked," "despised" (Nu 14:23; 16:30; Isa 1:4), "moved" (De 32:16; 1Ch 21:1), "rebelled against" (Ps 78:56), "were rebellious" (106:33,43); for "provoking" (Ps 78:17), "to rebel against"; for "provoked" (2Co 9:2), "stirred up"; "provoked within" for "stirred in" (Ac 17:16); "provoked" for "limited" (Ps 78:41 margin, "limited"); "provoketh" for "emboldeneth" (Job 16:3); instead of "Provoke not your children to anger" (Col 3:21), "Provoke not your children."
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.