KJV dictionary & concordance
Trouble, distress, irritation, or that which wearies and afflicts the mind.
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First occurrence: Deuteronomy 28:20
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
¶ Better is the sight of the eyes, then the wandering of the desire: this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.
1611 marginal noteHeb. then the walking of the soule.
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.
¶ 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.
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.
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.
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Behold, my seruants shall sing for ioy of heart, but yee shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howle for vexation of spirit.
1611 marginal noteHeb. breaking.
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