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# אַכְזְרִיּוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H395

**cruelty** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cruelty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/395/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַכְזְרִיּוּת: n.f. cruelty, fierceness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/395/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cruelty, fierceness, only א׳ חֵמָה וְשֶׁטֶף אָ֑ף pr 27:4 fierceness of rage and outpouring of anger.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] cruelty (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.4/#tree)

אַכְזְרִיּ֣וּת חֵ֭מָה וְשֶׁ֣טֶף אָ֑ף וּמִ֥י יַ֝עֲמֹד לִפְנֵ֥י קִנְאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].cruelty of.rage and.\[the\] flood of.anger and who? will.he.stand before jealousy

*JPS 1917:* Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/395.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/395/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).