Quick Definition
παραπικραίνω v. I embitter, provoke, irritate
Strong's Definition
from 3844 and 4087; to embitter alongside, i.e. (figuratively) to exasperate
KJV Usage: provoke
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. παρεπίκρανα | πικραίνω
39.40 · Hostility, Strife · Rebellion
to rebel, to rebel and provoke to anger to rebel, with the implication of provoking to anger
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παρα-πικραίνω : 1 aor. παρεπίκρανα; (see παρά, IV. 3); Sept. chiefly for 17, 1727, to be rebellious, contumacious, refractory; also for 19D, D°y377, etce.; to provoke, exasperale; to rouse to indignation: absol. (yet so that God is thought of as the one provoked), Heb. iii. 16, as in Ps. ev. (evi.) 7; Ixv. (Ixvi.) 7; Ixvii. (Ixviii.) 7; Ezek. ii. 5-8 ; with τὸν θεόν added, Jer. xxxix. (xxxii.) 29; li. (xliv.) 8,8; Ps. v.11; Ezek. xx. 21, and often; in pass., Lam. i. 20; joined with ὀργίζεσθαι, Philo de alles. legs. iii. § 38; w. πληροῦσθαι ὀργῆς δικαίας, vita Moys. i. § 55 [al. πάνυ mp.]; παραπικραίνειν x. παροργίζειν, de somn. ii. § 26.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραπικραίνω parapikrainō 1x
pr. to incite to bitter feelings; to provoke; absol. to act provokingly, be rebellious, Heb. 3:16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† παρα-πικραίνω,
[in LXX chiefly for מרה qal., hi., מְרִי, most freq. in Pss and Ez;]
to embitter, provoke: absol. (yet sc. τ. θεόν, cf. Ps 105 (106):7, Ez 2:5-8, al., and with τὸν θ. added, Ps 5:4, Ez 20:21, al.), He 3:16 (cf. παραπικρασμός).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραπικραίνω, ‘provoke "ἡ (= παροργίζω, Hed ch.), is regarded by Moffatt (/CC ad Heb 31%) asa LXX coinage “‘ to express ‘rebellious’ with a further sense of provoking or angering God.” In Deut 3215 it is parallel to παροξύνω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παραπικραίνω (parapikrainō) — to rebel. παραπικρ-αίνω, embitter, provoke, with accusative, [LXX]; rebel against, τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦ Κυρίου[LXX]; παραπικραίνουσα παρεπικράνθην[LXX+NT]