biter, biter-nes (, mar, or , marah = bitter (literally or figuratively); also (noun) bitterness or (adverb) bitterly; angry, chafed, discontented, heavy (Gen 27:34; Exo 15:23; Num 5:18, Num 5:19, Num 5:23, Num 5:24, Num 5:27; Est 4:1; Job 3:20; Psa 64:3; Pro 5:4; Pro 27:7; Ecc 7:26; Isa 5:20; Jer 2:19; Jer 4:18; Eze 27:31; Amo 8:10; Hab 1:6); the derivatives , marar, , meror, and , merorah, used with the same significance according to the context, are found in Exo 1:14; Exo 12:8; Num 9:11; Job 13:26; Isa 24:9. The derivatives mer and merr occur in Deu 32:24; Job 23:2 (margin); and , tamrur, is found in Jer 6:26; Jer 31:15. In the New Testament the verb , pikrano = to embitter; the adjective , pikros = bitter, and the noun , pikra, bitterness, supply the same ideas in Col 3:19; Jam 3:11, Jam 3:14; Rev 8:11; Rev 10:9, Rev 10:10): It will be noted that the word is employed with three principal spheres of application: (1) The physical sense of taste; (2) a figurative meaning in the objective sense of cruel, biting words; intense misery resulting from forsaking God, from a life of sin and impurity; the misery of servitude; the misfortunes of bereavement; (3) more subjectively, bitter and bitterness describe emotions of sympathy;’ the sorrow of childlessness and of penitence, of disappointment; the feeling of misery and wretchedness, giving rise to the expression bitter tears; (4) The ethical sense, characterizing untruth and immorality as the bitter thing in opposition to the sweetness of truth and the gospel; (5) Num 5:18 the Revised Version (British and American) speaks of the water of bitterness that causeth the curse. Here it is employed as a technical term.<\/p>\n
Bitter, Bitterness biter, biter-nes (, mar, or , marah = bitter (literally or figuratively); also (noun) bitterness or (adverb) bitterly; angry, chafed, discontented, heavy (Gen 27:34; Exo 15:23; Num 5:18, Num 5:19, Num 5:23, Num 5:24, Num 5:27; Est 4:1; Job 3:20; Psa 64:3; Pro 5:4; Pro 27:7; Ecc 7:26; Isa 5:20; Jer 2:19; Jer … Continue reading “Bitter, Bitterness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}