מְרֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4846

bitter thing — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

bitter thing tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרֹרָה: n.f. bitter thing, gall, poison tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. bitter thing, gall, poison; cstr. מְרוֹרַת Jb 20:14; sf. מְרֹרָתוֹ v 25; pl. מְרֹרֹת Dt 32:32, מְרֹרוֹת Jb 13:26;— gall, i.e. seat of gall, gall-bladder Jb 20:25 (‖ גֵּוָה back; cf. מְרֵרָה 16:13). = poison, מ׳ פְּתָנִים Jb 20:14. מְרֹרוֹת bitter things Jb 13:26 (of God’s edict of judgment). pl. abstr. = bitterness; אַשְׁכְּלֹת מ׳ Dt 32:32 clusters of bitterness (‖ עִנְּבֵי רוֹשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bitter (1); bitter things (1); gall-bladder (1).

In the verses

Job 13:26 · tree →

כִּֽי־תִכְתֹּ֣ב עָלַ֣י מְרֹר֑וֹת וְ֝תוֹרִישֵׁ֗נִי עֲוֺנ֥וֹת נְעוּרָֽי׃

Word for word: (dm) you.write on me bitter.things and you cause.me.to.inherit the.iniquities my.youth(s) my

JPS 1917: That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

Job 20:14 · tree →

לַ֭חְמוֹ בְּמֵעָ֣יו נֶהְפָּ֑ךְ מְרוֹרַ֖ת פְּתָנִ֣ים בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

Word for word: food his in his.inward parts it.is.changed venom of.cobras [is].in his.inward part[s]

JPS 1917: Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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