Words the Bible translates as bitterness
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- pikriaπικρίαbitterness of spirit: a settled, resentful temper that nurses a wrong and refuses to be reconciled, along with the cutting speech it produces.
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- a bitter poison: the corrupting, defiling influence of someone or something that turns away from God and threatens to poison the whole community.
- la'anahלַעֲנָהwormwood: a bitter desert shrub, used in the Bible only as an image of ruinous bitterness, the taste of judgment or of justice gone poisonous
- merorמָרֹרbitternessnot studied yet
- tamrurתַּמְרוּרbitternessnot studied yet
- kimrirכִּמְרִירblackness that blots out the day: a dread darkness so total it swallows daylight (a word of genuinely uncertain meaning)
- memerמֶמֶרbitternessnot studied yet
- mamrorמַמְרוֹרbitternessnot studied yet
- morahמֹרָהbitternessnot studied yet
- morrahמׇרָּהbitternessnot studied yet
- merirutמְרִירוּתbitternessnot studied yet
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