King James Dictionary - Vex To trouble; disturb. Then Job answered and said, How long will ye VEX my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ( Job 19:1-2 ) Source: A King James Dictionary. ( Used with permission.
vex in American English
1. to irritate; annoy; provoke. His noisy neighbors often vexed him. 2. to torment; trouble; distress; plague; worry.
irritated; annoyed: The shop's customers were often vexed at the slow sales clerks. much discussed or disputed; difficult to resolve or understand; contentious: The mining rights for that area are a vexed issue.
There in the text lies the Bible verse from which The Power of the Dog's title is taken, found in the book of Psalms, chapter 22: “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.” While the implication is that Phil is the dog and that the rest of the characters are saved from his power by his ...
[17] Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. [18] Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
vex implies greater provocation and stronger disturbance and usually connotes anger but sometimes perplexity or anxiety. vexed by her son's failure to clean his room. irk stresses difficulty in enduring and the resulting weariness or impatience of spirit.
Everything under the sun is vanity and vexation of spirit—He who increases in knowledge increases in sorrow. 1 The words of the aPreacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Here's a selection of the many references to dogs in the King James Bible: Revelation 22:15: “For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” Philippians 3:2: “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.”
The film is tremendously acted, with stunning cinematography and a typically compelling Jonny Greenwood score, but the richness of the relationships and all the things the characters are hiding or faking is what makes this movie a standout.
: feeling or showing irritation, annoyance, or distress. He had a vexed look, as if irritated at having to direct yet another … lost tourist to more celebrated Washington landmarks.
Meaning of vex in English. to cause difficulty to someone, or to cause someone to feel angry, annoyed, or upset: This issue looks likely to continue to vex the government.
The Origins of the Vex in Destiny
The Vex were created before the creation of the universe through what is known as the "flower game" between Destiny's Darkness and Light. The games between the two always resulted in the creation of a self-sustaining pattern that would grow to dominate the entire simulation.
Vex descends through Middle English from Latin vexare, "to shake, attack, trouble."
Peter Poisoned Phil To Protect His Mother
Whatever Phil and Peter's emotional intentions with each other, The Power of the Dog explained that Peter purposefully poisoned Phil to eliminate his step-uncle as a threat and thus protect himself and his mother.
Later, a second handkerchief comes into play. It belonged to Bronco Henry, and is introduced when, in a secluded wooded area, Phil pulls it out and masturbates with it. But this handkerchief looks different from Peter's: It's aged, creased and spoiled with decades of dirt and grease.
After initially tormenting and bullying the effeminate Peter on the ranch in front of the ranch employees, Phil begins to take the teenage boy under his wing and they spend more time together.
As then they were not easily discernible, therefore he says, 'beware of the dogs': the Jews are no longer children; once the Gentiles were called dogs, but now the Jews. 3. For the most part, this is how interpreters have understood Paul's invective ever since.
This past weekend, a team of researchers in Jerusalem announced the unearthing of archeological evidence which complicated Pope Francis' recent statement that having pets instead of children is “selfish”. The discovery, the remains of Jesus' rumored pet, a rose-ringed parakeet, throw the Pope's comments into question.
God made dogs for us to have as companions and helpers, and for the immeasurable pleasure and happiness they give us. Perhaps it's a stretch to think that dogs were also meant to teach us about God's love.
"Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" is conscious and hardened opposition to the truth, "because the Spirit is truth" (1 John 5:6). Conscious and hardened resistance to the truth leads man away from humility and repentance, and without repentance, there can be no forgiveness.
Putting all that together, we find that haughty eyes are the kind of eyes that look down at other people, as if the one looking down is “higher up” than others. At the heart of this again is the problem of comparing—we don't just look down, we look down at other people as if they are lower or lesser than we are.
But in the ancient Middle East, the writers of the Hebrew Bible forbade tattooing. Per Leviticus 19:28, “You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves.” Historically, scholars have often understood this as a warning against pagan practices of mourning.