Vex, Vexation
veks, vek-sashun: Vex, meaning originally to shake or toss in carrying, has a much more intensive meaning in Scripture than in common modern usage. It represents over a score of Hebrew and Greek words, most of them translated by this word only once, and many of them changed in the Revised Version (British and American) into other forms. Thus bahel in Psa 6:2, Psa 6:3, Psa 6:10. is in the American Standard Revised Version troubled (in Psa 2:5, the Revised Version margin. trouble); carar in Neh 9:27 is in the Revised Version (British and American) distressed;. pascho in Mat 17:15 is suffereth grievously; kakoo in Act 12:1 is afflict, etc. So vexation only in Isa 28:19 is in the Revised Version (British and American) nought but terror, and there are other changes of this word (compare Deu 28:20, discomfiture; Isa 9:1, in anguish). On the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) has vex for distress (Deu 2:9, Deu 2:19); they that vex for the adversaries of (Isa 11:13); vexeth himself for meddleth (Pro 26:17), etc.