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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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Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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1611 witness · Psalms 78:58 · retained source text

For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images.

1611 marginal noteDeut.32.21.

Psalms 106:7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
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1611 witness · Psalms 106:7 · retained source text

Our fathers vnderstood not thy wonders in Egypt, they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies: but prouoked him at the sea, euen at the Red-sea.

1611 marginal noteExod. 14.11,12,21.

Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
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Thus they prouoked him to anger with their inuentions: and the plague brake in vpon them.

Psalms 106:43
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
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1611 witness · Psalms 106:43 · retained source text

Many times did he deliuer them: but they prouoked him with their counsell, and were brought low for their iniquitie.

1611 marginal noteOr, impouerished, or weakened.

1611 marginal noteIudg.2.16.

Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 1:4 · retained source text

Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of euill doers, children that are corrupters: they haue forsaken the LORD, they haue prouoked the Holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone away backward.

1611 marginal noteHeb. of heauinesse.

1611 marginal noteHeb. alienated, or separated.

Jeremiah 8:19
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 8:19 · retained source text

Behold the voice of the crie of the daughter of my people because of them that dwel in a farre countrey: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? why haue they prouoked me to anger with their grauen images, and with strange vanities?

1611 marginal noteHeb. because of the countrey of them that are farre off.

Jeremiah 32:30
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 32:30 · retained source text

For the children of Israel, and the children of Iudah, haue onely done euill before me from their youth: for the children of Israel haue onely prouoked mee to anger with the worke of their hands, sayth the LORD.

Hosea 12:14
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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1611 witness · Hosea 12:14 · retained source text

Ephraim prouoked him to anger, most bitterly: therefore shall he leaue his blood vpon him, and his reproch shall his LORD returne vnto him.

1611 marginal noteHebr. with bitternesses.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bloods.

Zechariah 8:14
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:
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For thus saith the LORD of hostes, As I thought to punish you, when your fathers prouoked mee to wrath, saith the LORD of hostes, and I repented not:

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