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# מָרֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4844

**bitter thing** — used 3 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

bitter thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4844/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרֹר: n.m. bitter thing, bitter herb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4844/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bitter thing, bitter herb (cf. NH id., bitter herb; on form v. BaNB 194);—only pl. מְרֹרִים Ex 12:8; Nu 9:11, מְרוֹרִים La 3:15;—bitter herbs, in Passover meal Ex 12:8; Nu 9:11 (both P); cf. הִשְׂבִּיעַנִי בַּמּ׳ La 3:15, fig. of distress inflicted (‖ לַעֲנָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bitter herbs (2); things (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.15/#tree)

הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* he has.surfeited.me with.(the) bitter things he has.made.me.drink wormwood

*JPS 1917:* He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

[Exodus 12:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.8/#tree)

וְאָכְל֥וּ אֶת־הַבָּשָׂ֖ר בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַזֶּ֑ה צְלִי־אֵ֣שׁ וּמַצּ֔וֹת עַל־מְרֹרִ֖ים יֹאכְלֻֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.eat (et) the meat in the night (the) this roasted of.fire and unleavened.bread(s) with bitter.herbs they will.eat.it

*JPS 1917:* And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4844.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4844/): 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).