Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
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Cruel
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Hebrews 11:36
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
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אַכְזָרִי
ʼakzârîy · ak-zawr-ree'
7 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
terrible
Strong's KJV usage: cruel (one).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 5:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:42
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ʼakzâr · ak-zawr'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave
Strong's KJV usage: cruel, fierce.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:33Strong's last: Lamentations 4:3
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qâsheh · kaw-sheh'
3 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
severe (in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: churlish, cruel, grievous, hard((-hearted), thing), heavy, impudent, obstinate, prevailed, rough(-ly), sore, sorrowful, stiff(necked), stubborn, in trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 6:9Strong's last: Isaiah 19:4
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ʼakzᵉrîyûwth · ak-ze-ree-ooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
fierceness
Strong's KJV usage: cruel.
Strong's first: Proverbs 27:4Strong's last: Proverbs 27:4
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châmâç · khaw-mawce'
1 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
violence; by implication, wrong; by metonymy unjust gain
Strong's KJV usage: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, × oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 25:19Strong's last: Psalms 25:19
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qâshâh · kaw-shaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:7Strong's last: Genesis 49:7
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H2555
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
no direct Strong's tag
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
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cruel
CRUEL, adjective [Latin See Crude and Rude.]
1. Disposed to give pain to others, in body or mind; willing or pleased to torment, vex or afflict; inhuman; destitute of pity, compassion or kindness; fierce; ferocious; savage; barbarous; hardhearted; applied to persons or their dispositions.
They are cruel and have no mercy. Jeremiah 6:23.
2. Inhuman; barbarous; savage; causing pain, grief or distress; exerted in tormenting, vexing or afflicting.
Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel Genesis 44:1.
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel Proverbs 12:10.
Others had trials of cruel mockings. Hebrews 11:36.
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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