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provoked

Meaning of “provoked”

Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of provoke, meaning to stir up or incite, whether to anger or to action.

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33 occurrences32 verses17 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Numbers 14:23

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Numbers 14:23
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 14:23 · retained source text

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware vnto their fathers, neither shall any of them that prouoked me, see it.

1611 marginal noteHebr. if they see the land.

Numbers 16:30
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Numbers 16:30 · retained source text

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them vp, with all that appertaine vnto them, and they go downe quicke into the pit: then ye shall vnderstand that these men haue prouoked the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHebr. create a creature.

Deuteronomy 9:8
Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 9:8 · retained source text

Also in Horeb yee prouoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you, to haue destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 9:22
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 9:22 · retained source text

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-Hattaauah, ye prouoked the LORD to wrath.

1611 marginal noteNum. 11.1,3.

1611 marginal noteExod.17.7.

1611 marginal noteNum. 11.34.

Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 32:16 · retained source text

They prouoked him to ielousie with strange gods, with abominations prouoked they him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:21
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.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 32:21 · retained source text

They haue mooued me to ielousie with that which is not god, they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will moue them to ielousie with those which are not a people, I will prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1611 marginal noteRom. 10.9.

Judges 2:12
And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.
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1611 witness · Judges 2:12 · retained source text

And they forsooke the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselues vnto them, and prouoked the LORD to anger.

1 Samuel 1:6
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 1:6 · retained source text

And her aduersary also prouoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut vp her wombe.)

1611 marginal noteHebr. angred her.

1 Samuel 1:7
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 1:7 · retained source text

And as he did so yeere by yeere, when she went vp to the house of the LORD, so she prouoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

1611 marginal noteOr, from the time that she &c. Hebr. from her going vp.

1 Kings 14:22
And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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1611 witness · 1 Kings 14:22 · retained source text

And Iudah did euill in the sight of the LORD, and they prouoked him to iealousie with their sinnes which they had committed, aboue all that their fathers had done.

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