15 occurrences in 13 translations

'Bitter' in the Bible

And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:

Verse ConceptsMade A HorrorThe Nations Before GodFun

For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

Verse ConceptsPlaguesPestilenceDestruction Of All CreaturesFamine Coming From GodFour Other ThingsBoth Men And Animals Killed

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfSheddingCovered With BloodPeople Involved In JudgementJudgement On MurderersGod Angry With IndividualsSexual Immorality Brings Punishment

And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfAnger SubsidingGod Will No More Be Angry

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Destruction OfTeethInfidelity To GodParents SinDentistrySins Of The FathersChildren SufferingOld SayingsFathers Responsibilitiesgrandfathersparenthood

And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of SaintsPeople RememberingPeople Polluting Themselves

As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

Verse ConceptsSorrowBitternessA Broken Heart

And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod, Zeal OfJealousyMutilationNosesDisfigurementSurvivors DestroyedKilled With The SwordBurning PeopleChildren SufferingSevering Body Parts

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.

Verse ConceptsBaldnessSackcloth And AshesBitternessgrievingbranding

In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming.

Verse ConceptsComplacencySeafaringSea Travel

And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodIrreverenceAnimals Eating PeopleGod Hearing

For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:

Verse ConceptsMotives, Examples OfNationalismConquestFire Of God's AngerRejoicing In EvilTaking Possession

For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:

Verse ConceptsJealousyInsulting Other People

And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge Of Good And EvilReminders Of SinSin Clings To The Sinner

And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Nature OfHeatGod Angry With The Nations

Bible Theasaurus

Bitterly (51 instances)
Blistering (1 instance)
Malicious (32 instances)
Sulfurous (1 instance)
Sulphurous (1 instance)
Taint (1 instance)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מרה מר 
Mar 
Usage: 38

מרורה מררה 
M@rorah 
Usage: 4

πικραίνω 
Pikraino 
Usage: 4

ארר 
'arar 
Usage: 63

ממר 
memer 
Usage: 1

מרּה 
Morrah 
Usage: 1

מרי 
M@riy 
Usage: 23

מרירוּת 
M@riyruwth 
Usage: 1

מרירי 
M@riyriy 
Usage: 1

מרר 
Marar 
Usage: 16

מרור מרר 
M@ror 
Usage: 3

קפּד קפּוד 
Qippowd 
Usage: 3

תּמרוּר 
Tamruwr 
Usage: 3

πικρία 
Pikria 
Usage: 4

πικρός 
Pikros 
Usage: 2

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