Bible Dictionary
VEX, VEXATION
To vex is to trouble, distress, afflict, or harass severely. In Scripture, “vexation” may describe anguish, terror, oppression, or deep disturbance.
Biblical Usage
Biblical translations use vex for troubling, distressing, afflicting, and opposing. Revised versions commonly render the term with more specific words such as troubled, distressed, suffered grievously, afflicted, terror, anguish, or discomfiture.