Genesis 27:34
And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
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Bitter
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Revelation 10:10
And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
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7 occurrences in 6 verses.
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Genesis
11 verses
Exodus
33 verses
Numbers
76 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
Esther
11 verses
Job
33 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Isaiah
32 verses
Jeremiah
44 verses
Ezekiel
11 verses
Amos
11 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Colossians
11 verses
James
22 verses
Revelation
33 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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מַר
mar · mar
20 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Strong's KJV usage: angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, × great, heavy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 27:34Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:6
Open full H4751 profile →πικραίνω
pikraínō · pik-rah'-ee-no
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to embitter (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (make) bitter.
Strong's first: Colossians 3:19Strong's last: Revelation 10:10
Open full G4087 profile →πικρός
pikrós · pik-ros'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
sharp (pungent), i.e. acrid (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bitter.
Strong's first: James 3:11Strong's last: James 3:14
Open full G4089 profile →מָרַר
mârar · maw-rar'
2 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, -ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 1:14Strong's last: Isaiah 24:9
Open full H4843 profile →מְרֹר
mᵉrôr · mer-ore'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a bitter herb
Strong's KJV usage: bitter(-ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:8Strong's last: Numbers 9:11
Open full H4844 profile →תַּמְרוּר
tamrûwr · tam-roor'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
bitterness (plural as collective)
Strong's KJV usage: × most bitter(-ly).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 6:26Strong's last: Jeremiah 31:15
Open full H8563 profile →κοιλία
koilía · koy-lee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
a cavity, i.e. (especially) the abdomen; by implication, the matrix; figuratively, the heart
Strong's KJV usage: :--belly, womb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 10:9Strong's last: Revelation 10:9
Open full G2836 profile →מָרָה
mârâh · maw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
Strong's KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 14:26Strong's last: 2 Kings 14:26
Open full H4784 profile →מְרִי
mᵉrîy · mer-ee'
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) rebellion; concretely, bitter, or rebellious
Strong's KJV usage: bitter, (most) rebel(-lion, -lious).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 23:2Strong's last: Job 23:2
Open full H4805 profile →מְרִירִי
mᵉrîyrîy · mer-ee-ree'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
bitter, i.e. poisonous
Strong's KJV usage: bitter.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:24Strong's last: Deuteronomy 32:24
Open full H4815 profile →מְרֹרָה
mᵉrôrâh · mer-o-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
properly, bitterness; concretely, a bitter thing; specifically bile; also venom (of a serpent)
Strong's KJV usage: bitter (thing), gall.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:32Strong's last: Deuteronomy 32:32
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H4751
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
H4751
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
H8563
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
H8563
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
H4751
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
H4751
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
H4751
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
G4087
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
G4089
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
G4089
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
G4087
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
G2836
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
G4087
And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
English meaning and historical usage.
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bitter
BIT'TER, adjective
1. Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.
2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. Hebrews 1:1.
3. Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.
4. Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.
5. Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.
6. Afflicted; distressed.
The Egyptians made their lives bitter Exodus 1:14.
7. Hurtful; very sinful.
Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jeremiah 2:19.
8. Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23:2. Jeremiah 6:26.
BIT'TER, noun A substance that is bitter [See bitter ]
BIT'TER, noun [See Bitts.] In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Bitter-end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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