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# מֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4786

**bitterness of spirit** — 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

bitterness of spirit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4786/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹרָה: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4786/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id., cstr. מֹרַת רוּחַ Gn 26:35 (P) bitterness of spirit (= grief of mind).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.35/#tree)

וַתִּהְיֶ֖יןָ מֹ֣רַת ר֑וּחַ לְיִצְחָ֖ק וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.were bitterness of.spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah

*JPS 1917:* And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4786.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4786/): 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).