Greek word · G4360

προσοχθίζω

prosochthizō

be angry

To be offended, provoked or vexed; to feel disgust or loathing toward something, to be sick of it. The word is rare outside the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint), where it translates several Hebrew verbs for revulsion and abhorrence.

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Greek New Testament. · Updated October 25, 2026

What it means

προσ-οχθίζω

[in LXX: Leviticus 26:15, al. (גָּעַל); Leviticus 18:25, al. (קוֹא), Psalms 95:10, Ezekiel 36:31 (קוּט), Sirach 6:25, al. (other writers use ὀχθέω, rarely -ίζω) ;]

to be angry with: with dative, Hebrews 3:10 (LXX), Hebrews 3:17.†

(AS)

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Hebrews 3:17

Range of meaning: To be offended, provoked or vexed; to feel disgust or loathing toward something, to be sick of it. The word is rare outside the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint), where it translates several Hebrew verbs for revulsion and abhorrence.
Against the English: BSB, NIV and NASB have "angry"; WEB has "displeased"; ESV has "provoked"; KJV and YLT have "grieved". "Angry" is close but misses the element of disgust. "Displeased" is too mild. In modern English "grieved" sounds like sorrow, which is not what the word means.
How it drifted: In 1611 "grieved" could mean offended, vexed or aggrieved (compare "aggrieved party"). Today it mostly means mourning, so KJV readers can come away thinking God was sad, when the text says he was revolted and offended.
Used elsewhere in the period: Septuagint Psalm 94(95):10: "forty years I was disgusted (prosōchthisa) with that generation", translating Hebrew qûṭ, "to loathe". In Leviticus 26:30 God says "my soul will abhor you" (Hebrew gāʿal). Numbers 21:5: "our soul loathes this worthless bread". Genesis 27:46: Rebekah is "sick of my life". Numbers 22:3: Moab "was in dread/disgust" of Israel (Hebrew qûṣ). In every case it means strong aversion.

From the study of Hebrews 3:10

Range of meaning: To be offended, provoked or angry with someone. It has an overtone of revulsion, of being thoroughly sick of something. The root idea (ochtheō) is to be vexed or weighed down. In the Greek Old Testament it often translates Hebrew words for loathing or abhorring.
Against the English: KJV and YLT say 'grieved'; WEB says 'displeased'; BSB and NIV say 'angry'; ESV says 'provoked'. 'Displeased' is too mild. 'Grieved' now sounds like sorrow, but in 1611 it meant vexed or offended. 'Angry' is right but loses the note of disgust, and the sense that it lasted for years.
How it drifted: English 'grieved' narrowed after the 17th century to mean mourning. KJV readers today may picture a sad God rather than an offended one.
Used elsewhere in the period: Greek Psalm 94:10 (= Psalm 95:10) translates Hebrew 'aqut, from qut, 'feel loathing, be disgusted' (HALOT). Leviticus 26:11–44 in the Greek uses it repeatedly for God's 'soul abhorring' a covenant-breaking people, and Sirach 25:2 uses it for 'my soul hates'. In the New Testament it appears only in Hebrews 3:10 and 3:17.

Where it appears

Hebrews · 2

Hebrews 3:10 προσώχθισα I was angry

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

Here: A strong word for being disgusted with someone or sick of them. It translates the Hebrew 'I loathed' in Psalm 95. The past tense sums up God's reaction across the whole wilderness period.
Hebrews 3:17 προσώχθισεν was He indignant

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Here: Taken straight from Psalm 95:10 in the Greek Old Testament, where it translates a Hebrew verb for loathing. It describes God's settled revulsion and offense at that generation, not passing irritation and not sadness. The simple past tense sums up the whole forty-year stretch as one fact.

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