'Provocation' in the Bible

Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

If I had not feared a provocation of [the] enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand, lest they should say, "Our hand is {triumphant}, and Yahweh [did] not do all this." '

Do not regard your female servant as {worthless}, but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this."

{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.

Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

And I brought them to the land that {I swore} to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there.

Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will {hold him responsible for his crimes} and pay back to him his insults.