Deuteronomy 32:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃

Transliteration

yaqnîʾuhû bəzārîm bəṯôʿēḇōṯ yaḵʿîsuhû

Grammar Details

*yaqnîʾuhû*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - they made him jealous
*bəzārîm*: preposition + masculine plural adjective - with strange ones
*bəṯôʿēḇōṯ*: preposition + feminine plural noun - with abominations
*yaḵʿîsuhû*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - they provoked him

Word Meanings

*yaqnîʾuhû*: they made him jealous/they provoked him to jealousy/they moved him to envy
*zārîm*: strange ones/foreigners/alien things
*tôʿēḇōṯ*: abominations/detestable things/loathsome practices
*yaḵʿîsuhû*: they provoked him/they vexed him/they angered him

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Referenced Verses

Ps 78:58 : 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Nah 1:1-2 : 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 2 Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah avengeth and is full of wrath; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
Lev 18:27 : 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);
Deut 5:9 : 9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
Deut 7:25 : 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
1 Kgs 14:22 : 22 And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 78:58-59
2 verses
84%
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
Deut 32:21
82%
21They 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 that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deut 32:17-19
3 verses
78%
17They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.
19And Jehovah saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Judg 2:12
78%
12and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger.
Ps 106:29
76%
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.
Neh 9:18
76%
18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
2 Kgs 17:11-12
2 verses
76%
11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
1 Kgs 14:22
75%
22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
Rom 10:19
74%
19But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.
Ps 78:56
74%
56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
Ps 78:40-41
2 verses
74%
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
2 Kgs 17:16-17
2 verses
74%
16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
Deut 32:15
74%
15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Jer 44:3
74%
3because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.
Exod 32:8
74%
8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deut 9:22
73%
22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
Deut 29:26
73%
26and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:
Ps 106:32-33
2 verses
73%
32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;
33Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Deut 6:15
73%
15for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Jer 32:32
73%
32because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ps 78:17
73%
17Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Jer 7:19
73%
19Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
Neh 9:26
72%
26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Ps 106:16
72%
16They envied Moses also in the camp, [And] Aaron the saint of Jehovah.
Exod 34:14
72%
14(for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God);
Deut 9:8
72%
8Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
Num 25:3
72%
3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
Ps 106:40
72%
40Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people, And he abhorred his inheritance.
Judg 2:20
71%
20And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Ps 106:14
71%
14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.
Num 32:14
71%
14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.
Ps 78:21
71%
21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
2 Kgs 22:17
71%
17Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
Isa 65:3
70%
3a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
2 Chr 28:25
70%
25And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
Lam 4:16
70%
16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; He will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
Num 32:10
70%
10And Jehovah's anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying,
Jer 32:34
70%
34But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
Deut 31:20
70%
20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
Jer 25:6
70%
6and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jer 44:8
70%
8in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
1 Kgs 16:33
70%
33And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
Neh 9:16
70%
16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,