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# מׇרָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4787

**bitterness** — 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 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4787/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרָּה: n.f. bitterness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4787/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bitterness (on form v. Ges§ 22, 5 R);—cstr. לֵב יוֹדֵעַ מָרַּת נַפְשׁוֹ Pr 14:10 the heart knoweth the bitterness of its soul (its own misery).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the bitterness (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.10/#tree)

לֵ֗ב י֭וֹדֵעַ מָרַּ֣ת נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וּ֝בְשִׂמְחָת֗וֹ לֹא־יִתְעָ֥רַב זָֽר׃

*Word for word:* a.heart \[is\].knowing the.bitterness its.own.self his and in joy its not he.shares a.stranger

*JPS 1917:* The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and with its joy no stranger can intermeddle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4787.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4787/): 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).