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# אַכְזָרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H394

**cruel** — used 8 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

cruel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/394/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַכְזָרִי: adj. cruel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/394/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. cruel, always in this form;—Pr 12:10; 17:11 Je 6:23; 50:42, also 30:14 (read מוּסָר א׳, for MT מוּסַר, Gf Gie); as subst. Pr 5:9; 11:17, perhaps also, in appos. with יוֹם י׳, Is 13:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a cruel \[person\] (2); \[are\] cruel (1); \[is\] cruel (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.10/#tree)

יוֹדֵ֣עַ צַ֭דִּיק נֶ֣פֶשׁ בְּהֶמְתּ֑וֹ וְֽרַחֲמֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים אַכְזָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].knowing a.righteous.\[person\] the.life his.animals his and.\[the\] compassion(s) of.wicked.\[people\] \[are\].cruel

*JPS 1917:* A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

[Proverbs 11:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.17/#tree)

גֹּמֵ֣ל נַ֭פְשׁוֹ אִ֣ישׁ חָ֑סֶד וְעֹכֵ֥ר שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹ אַכְזָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].dealing.bountifully.with self his a.person of.loyalty and.\[is\] troubling body his a.cruel.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/394/): 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).