מְרֹר
mᵉrôr · H4844 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
- Bitter herbsLeafy vegetables3 verses
Meanings
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bitter herbs
Bitter-tasting herbs, eaten as part of the Passover meal; associated with sadness and hardship
ExamplesExodus 12:8 ‘They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Numbers 9:11 ‘In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall celebrate it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- בin/on/with 2
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Food001003001003
- The word denotes bitter herbs, the food eaten with the Passover lamb.
- Grieve002001002013
- The word carries the broader sense of bitterness as an experience of grief and sorrow.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4844. maror [מָרֹר] noun masculine bitter thing, bitter herb (compare Late Hebrew id.,…
[מָרֹר] noun masculine bitter thing, bitter herb (compare Late Hebrew id., bitter herb; on form see BaNB 194); — only plural מְרֹרִים Exo 12:8; Num 9:11, מְרוֺרִים Lam 3:15; — bitter herbs, in Passover meal Exo 12:8; Num 9:11 (both P); compare בַּמּ ׳הִשְׂבִּיעַנִי Lam 3:15, figurative of distress inflicted (|| לַעֲנָה).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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