KJV dictionary & concordance

vexation

Meaning of “vexation”

Trouble, distress, irritation, or that which wearies and afflicts the mind.

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14 occurrences14 verses3 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 28:20

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Isaiah 9:1

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NEVERTHELESS the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Isaiah 9:1 · retained source text

¶ Neuerthelesse the dimnesse shall not be such as was in her vexation; when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grieuously afflict her by the way of the Sea, beyond Iordan in Galile of the nations.

1611 marginal noteOr, populous.

Isaiah 28:19

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From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

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1611 witness · Isaiah 28:19 · retained source text

From the time that it goeth forth, it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it passe ouer, by day and by night, and it shalbe a vexation, onely to vnderstand the report.

1611 marginal noteOr, when he shall make you to vnderstand doctrine.

Isaiah 65:14

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