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Psa. 78:40 KJV (With Strong’s)

How oft did they δprovokeo him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Psa. 95:8‑10• ⁸Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;
⁹When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work.
¹⁰Forty years long was I disgusted with the generation and said,{HR}A people erring in heart [are] they,{HR}And they have not known my ways, (Psa. 95:8‑10)

or, rebel against.

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How oft.

Psa. 78:17• ¹⁷Yet they still went on to sin against him,{HR}To rebel against the Most High in the desert (dry); (Psa. 78:17)

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Psa. 106:14‑33• ¹⁴And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
¹⁷Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
¹⁸And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
²⁰And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
²¹They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
²²Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
²³And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
²⁴And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
²⁵But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
²⁶And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
²⁸And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
²⁹And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment,{HR}And the plague was stayed.
³¹And it was reckoned to him for righteousness{HR}To generation and generation for evermore.
³²And they angered him at the waters of Meribah,{HR}And it went ill with Moses on their account,
³³For they provoked his spirit,{HR}And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. (Psa. 106:14‑33)

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Num. 14:11• ¹¹{i}And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?{/i} (Num. 14:11)

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Deut. 9:21‑22• ²¹{i}And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.{/i}
²²{i}And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.{/i} (Deut. 9:21‑22)

provoke him.

or, rebel against him.

grieve.

Isa. 7:13• ¹³And he said, Hear then, house of David. [Is it] a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God? (Isa. 7:13)

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Isa. 63:10• ¹⁰But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)

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Eph. 4:30• ³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God by whom ye were sealed for redemption-day. (Eph. 4:30)

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Heb. 3:15‑17• ¹⁵In that it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.
¹⁶For who having heard provoked? But did not all that came out of Egypt by Moses?
¹⁷And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? (Heb. 3:15‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

How oft did they provokec him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

JND Translation Notes

Or "rebel against."

W. Kelly Translation

How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness{HR}And grieve him in the desert!