Word

אַכְזָר

ʼakzâr · H393 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

cruel, fierce

Pertaining to being without mercy towards humans and animals

Examples
Deuteronomy 32:33 “Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of vipers.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּתdaughter 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 3

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

עַז ʻaz · H5794 · strong, fierce, powerful: Both אַכְזָר (ʼakzâr, H393) (“cruel, fierce”) and עַז (ʻaz, H5794) (“fierce,” also “greedy, mighty, power, strong”) denote cruelty or fierceness; עַז has a broader range including strength and intensity, but both denote harshness or cruelty in the sense of “fierce, cruel.”
קָשֶׁה qâsheh · H7186 · hard, harsh, savage: Both words share the sense 'cruel' and could substitute for one another in contexts describing harshness or pitilessness. קָשֶׁה (qâsheh, H7186) has a much broader range (hard, obstinate, grievous, and more), but the overlap in the specific sense of cruelty is real.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Cruel002001002004: אַכְזָר describes cruelty or fierceness, as the venom of serpents likened to Israel's oppressors or God's hand pressing hard on Job.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אַכְזָרʼakzâr · H393אַכְזָרִי ʼakzârîy · H394 · cruel, fierce · 8×אַכְזְרִיּוּת ʼakzᵉrîyûwth · H395 · cruelty · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H393. akzar אַכְזָר adjective cruel, fierce, of poison (ראֹשׁ) Deu 32:33; elsewhere of…

H393. akzar
אַכְזָר adjective cruel, fierce, of poison (ראֹשׁ) Deu 32:33; elsewhere of men, fierce Job 41:2; as substantive = a cruel one Job 30:21 (of God), Lam 4:3.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Cruel4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0