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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Provoke

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

42exact KJV occurrences 33Old Testament 9New Testament 17books containing the word 10mapped Strong's IDs 14occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Exodus 23:21

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where provoke appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4784
מָרָה

mârâh · maw-raw'

2 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences

v

to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)

Strong's KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).

Strong's first: Psalms 78:40Strong's last: Isaiah 3:8

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GreekG653
ἀποστοματίζω

apostomatízō · ap-os-tom-at-id'-zo

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to speak off-hand (properly, dictate), i.e. to catechize (in an invidious manner)

Strong's KJV usage: :--provoke to speak.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 11:53Strong's last: Luke 11:53

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GreekG3893
παραπικραίνω

parapikraínō · par-ap-ik-rah'-ee-no

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to embitter alongside, i.e. (figuratively) to exasperate

Strong's KJV usage: :--provoke.

Strong's first: Hebrews 3:16Strong's last: Hebrews 3:16

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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42 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Exodus 23:21
H4843

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

Numbers 14:11
H5006

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?

Deuteronomy 4:25
no direct Strong's tag

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 to anger:

Deuteronomy 9:18
no direct Strong's tag

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 31:20
H5006

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

Deuteronomy 31:29
no direct Strong's tag

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 32:21
no direct Strong's tag

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Kings 14:9
no direct Strong's tag

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 16:2
no direct Strong's tag

Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

1 Kings 16:26
no direct Strong's tag

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:33
no direct Strong's tag

And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

2 Kings 17:11
no direct Strong's tag

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2 Kings 17:17
no direct Strong's tag

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 21:6
no direct Strong's tag

And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 22:17
no direct Strong's tag

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

2 Kings 23:19
no direct Strong's tag

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

2 Chronicles 33:6
no direct Strong's tag

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Chronicles 34:25
no direct Strong's tag

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

Job 12:6
H7264

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Psalms 78:40
H4784

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Isaiah 3:8
H4784

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Jeremiah 7:18
no direct Strong's tag

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 7:19
no direct Strong's tag

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Jeremiah 7:19
no direct Strong's tag

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Jeremiah 11:17
no direct Strong's tag

For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

provoke

PROVO'KE, verb transitive [Latin provoco, to call forth; pro and voco, to call.]

1. To call into action; to arouse; to excite; as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury; to provoke war.

2. To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Ephesians 6:4.

Often provoked by the insolence of some of the bishops--

3. To excite; to cause; as, to provoke perspiration; to provoke a smile.

4. To excite; to stimulate; to increase.

The taste of pleasure provokes the appetite, and every successive indulgence of vice which is to form a habit, is easier than the last.

5. To challenge.

He now provokes the sea-gods from the shore.

6. To move; to incite; to stir up; to induce by motives. Romans 10:19.

Let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works. Hebrews 10:24.

7. To incite; to rouse; as, to provoke one to anger. Deuteronomy 32:21.

PROVO'KE, verb intransitive To appeal. [A Latinism, not used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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