כַּעַס kaʻaç — to trouble
Translated in the KJV as be angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke (to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.
a primitive root; to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant.
kaʻaç in each stem
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 26Perfect (qatal) 6Wayyiqtol 5Participle (active) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 2
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.
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›