מֹרָה
môrâh · H4786 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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distress
Literally: bitterness; hence: state in which humans are in deep distress
ExamplesGenesis 26:35 and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רוּחַspirit, wind 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
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 6 words
- דְּאָגָה dᵉʼâgâh · H1674 · fear, anxiety, worry
- Both terms describe overlapping emotional distress states — one "sorrow, care," the other "grief" — states that could substitute for each other in context.
- מַכְאֹב makʼôb · H4341 · pain, sorrow, grief
- Both words center on grief or sorrow, denoting overlapping states of emotional distress.
- יָגוֹן yâgôwn · H3015 · grief, sorrow
- Both terms show overlapping sense within the same semantic field — one "grief, sorrow," the other "grief" — both nouns of emotional distress.
- כְּאֵב kᵉʼêb · H3511 · wound, grief
- Both words denote inward emotional pain and sorrow.
- אֲנִיָּה ʼănîyâh · H592 · mourning
- Both words denote emotional states and expressions of grief. מֹרָה is "grief" and אֲנִיָּה is "lamentation, sorrow," and their senses overlap.
- תּוּגָה tûwgâh · H8424 · grief
- Both terms denote emotional distress — grief, sorrow, heaviness — overlapping states that could substitute for each other in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grieve002001002013
- מְרוֹר describes grief or bitterness, illustrated at its sole occurrence, Genesis 26:35 (Esau's Hittite wives "brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah").
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4786. morah [מֹרָה] noun feminine id., construct רוּחַ מֹרַת Gen 26:35 (P) bitterness of…
[מֹרָה] noun feminine id., construct רוּחַ מֹרַת Gen 26:35 (P) bitterness of spirit (= grief of mind).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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