vex the Midianites, and smite them:
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 25:17 · retained source text
Uexe the Midianites, and smite them:
1611 marginal noteChap. 31.2.
KJV dictionary & concordance
vex
Meaning of “vex”
To trouble, distress, afflict, harass, or oppress.
Definition sources
KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
15 occurrences15 verses11 booksKJV PCE
First occurrence: Exodus 22:21
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Every verse containing “vex”
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 25:18 · retained source text
For they vexe you with their wiles, wherewith they haue beguiled you, in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a Prince of Midian their sister, which was slaine in the day of the plague, for Peors sake.
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 33:55 · retained source text
But if ye will not driue out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to passe that those which ye let remaine of them, shall be prickes in your eyes, and thornes in your sides, and shal vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell.
1611 marginal noteIosh. 23.13. iudg. 2.3.
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Skeat 1893
Open source edition ↗to harass, torment.