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# מְרִירוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4814

**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/1502/4814/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרִירוּת²: n.f. bitterness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4814/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bitterness;—וּבִמ׳ תֵּאָנַח Ez 21:11 and in bitterness (bitterly) shalt thou groan.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: bitterness (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.11/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֥ה בֶן־אָדָ֖ם הֵֽאָנַ֑ח בְּשִׁבְר֤וֹן מָתְנַ֙יִם֙ וּבִמְרִיר֔וּת תֵּֽאָנַ֖ח לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you O.son of.humankind groan with breaking of.loins and with bitterness you.will.groan to eyes their

*JPS 1917:* Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4814.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4814/): 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).