48 occurrences in 11 translations

'Displeased' in the Bible

Sarah's demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.

Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased} on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you}, for through Isaac [your] offspring will be named.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProphecies Concerning ChristPay Attention To People!sarah

So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTroubling Individualshumor

So Rachel said to her father, “Do not be displeased, my lord, that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is on me and I am unwell.” He searched [further] but did not find the household idols.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Verse ConceptsBalaams Donkeydoubt, results ofFireGrudgesHearingProvoking GodResentment, Against GodAnger Of God, Examples OfDivine DispleasureDispleasureComplaintsFire From HeavenGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Will Be AngryProblem PeopleComplaining

Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

Verse ConceptsTentsGod Will Be AngryMourning In RegretNot Pleasing People

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementNot Pleasing PeopleNamed Individuals Who Prayed

And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

Verse ConceptsTemperEnvy, Example OfDislikingFrustrationAngry People

And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.

Verse ConceptsAngry PeopleGiven Names To This Day

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfSin, And God's CharacterDavid's Wives

And all the men of Judah answer against the men of Israel, 'Because the king is near unto us, and why is this -- ye are displeased about this matter? have we at all eaten of the king's substance? a gift hath he lifted up to us?'

Verse ConceptsRelatives

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofOpposition, To Sin And EvilRestraintBeauty, In MenNot Asking OthersSoft TreatmentHandsome Men

And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

Verse ConceptsAngry People

And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against GodSadnessTemperUnhappinessAnger, Sinful ExamplesLying Down To RestAngry People

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah's firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn SonsGod Killing

And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

Verse ConceptsDispleasure

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahCharacter Of WickedEnvy, Example OfMalice, Examples OfThe Ungodly Suffering

I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room.

{To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

Verse ConceptsCarvings Of FlowersMusicDivine DispleasureDispleasure

It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

Verse ConceptsRebukeVinesFelling TreesHeavenly FacesBurning PlantsGod Requite Them!

Restore us, O God our deliverer! Do not be displeased with us!

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsGod My SalvationLet Not God Be Angry

or the Lord will see, be displeased,and turn His wrath away from him.

Verse ConceptsGod Will No More Be Angry

Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee.

Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

Only in Jehovah, said hath one, Have I righteousness and strength, Unto Him he cometh in, And ashamed are all those displeased with Him.

Verse ConceptsShameNo Other Acts Like GodGod Our StrengthShame Will ComeAngry With God

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Verse ConceptsHuntingDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Paid Attention To ThemMissing Someoneshunning

He did what displeased the Lord just as Jehoiakim had done.

Verse ConceptsLike Bad People

Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

Verse ConceptsRegretThoughts Of The RighteousSunsetsIndividuals Saving Others

Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

Verse ConceptsChariotsChariots Of GodSalvation, Illustrations OfGod RidingHeavenly ChariotsGod Has AngerGod My Salvation

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Verse ConceptsSecurityDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Angry With The NationsGod Saves From Sin And DeathThose At Ease

Edom says, "Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places." So the Lord who rules over all responds, "They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the Lord is permanently displeased.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationCrushingLossArchaeologyEternal JudgementGod Angry With The Nationsbordersclosure

Then the disciples came and said to Jesus, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard you say this?”

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against GodComing To ChristStumbling Over ChristChrist With His Disciples

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,

Verse ConceptsChief priestsdiligenceResentment, Against GodScribesShoutingChildren And The KingdomAngry With ChristOpposition To Christ From ScribesSave Us!

And having seen it, his disciples were much displeased, saying, 'To what purpose is this waste?

Verse ConceptsThe Disciples ReactionsAngry People

and they have no real root in themselves, so they endure only for a little while; then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they [are offended and displeased at being associated with Me and] stumble and fall away.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, In Christian LivingShallownessFor The Sake Of ThingsPersecutionpressure

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Verse ConceptsBack to schoolBad ChildrenKingdom Of God, Entry IntoDivine DispleasureDispleasureDrawing Near To ChristLike ChildrenDo Not HinderPeople Of The KingdomKingdom Of Heavengirlfriends

And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.

Verse ConceptsDispleasureTen PeopleUnnamed People Angry With Others

and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, 'For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?

Verse ConceptsFrugalityUnnamed People Angry With Others

And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, 'Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'

Verse ConceptsDays, Natural UsePharisees, Beliefs OfLegalismSix DaysAngry With ChristDoing One's WorkJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristJesus Healing On Sabbath

And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.

Verse ConceptsChamberlainsPeople Providing FoodNamed People Angry With OthersPrivate Rooms

Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysWay, TheHeart, Of Unregenerate PeoplePeople Going Astray

And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Verse ConceptsDesertsIrritationMisused Privileges40 To 50 YearsDying In The WildernessDying In The Desert Sinners Grasped By Death

Bible Theasaurus

Displease (9 instances)
Displeased (48 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
G23
ἀγανακτέω 
Aganakteo 
Usage: 7

אזן 
'ozen 
Usage: 187

אנף 
'anaph 
Usage: 14

בּאשׁ 
B@'esh (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

זעף 
Za`eph 
Usage: 2

חמא חמה 
Chemah 
Usage: 124

חרה 
Charah 
Usage: 91

חרן חרון 
Charown 
Usage: 41

ירע 
Yara` 
Usage: 8

עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

עצב 
`atsab 
Usage: 17

קצף 
Qatsaph 
Usage: 34

רעע 
Ra`a` 
Usage: 98

θυμομαχέω 
Thumomacheo 
Usage: 1

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