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# מְרֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4845

**gall** — 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

gall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4845/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרֵרָה: n.f. gall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4845/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. gall; only sf. יִשְׁפֹּךְ לָאָרֶץ מְרֵרָתִי Jb 16:13 he poureth on the ground my gall (‖ יְפַלַּח כִּלְיוֹתַי), fig. of God’s cruel treatment (cf. מְרֹרָה 20:25).

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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 16:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.13/#tree)

יָ֘סֹ֤בּוּ עָלַ֨י ׀ רַבָּ֗יו יְפַלַּ֣ח כִּ֭לְיוֹתַי וְלֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ מְרֵרָֽתִי׃

*Word for word:* they.surround (on) me archers his he.pierces kidneys my and not he.has.compassion he.pours.out to the ground gall my

*JPS 1917:* His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4845.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4845/): 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).