מְרֹרָה
mᵉrôrâh · H4846 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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gall
Literally: bitter (organ); hence: gall bladder, known for its bitter contents
ExamplesJob 20:25 “It is drawn and comes out of his back, Even the flashing point from his gallbladder; Terrors come upon him,
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bitter venom
Literally: bitter (fluid); hence: poisonous fluid; secreted by serpents and introduced into body of victim by bite
ExamplesJob 20:14 Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.
How it’s used In 4 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- פֶּתֶןasp 1
- הוּhis 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶשְׁכּוֹלcluster 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 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 1 word
- רֹאשׁ rôʼsh · H7219 · head, beginning
- Both words denote bitter or poisonous substances and share the rendering "gall."
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Liquids001002005007
- The word denotes venom or gall, a bitter liquid, as the venom of cobras within the wicked man's stomach, or the flashing bile drawn from his gallbladder.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4846. merorah [מְרֹרָה] noun feminine bitter thing, gall, poison; construct מְרוֺרַת Job…
[מְרֹרָה] noun feminine bitter thing, gall, poison; construct מְרוֺרַת Job 20:14; suffix מְרֹרָתוֺ Job 20:25; plural מְרֹרֹת Deu 32:32, מְרֹרוֺת Job 13:36; —
1 gall, i.e. seat of gall, gall-bladder Job 20:25 (|| גֵּוָה back; compare מְרֵרָה Job 16:30).
2 = poison, ׳מ מְּתָנִים Job 20:14.
3 מְרֹרוֺת bitter thing Job 13:26 (of God's edict of judgment).
4 plural abstract = bitterness; ׳מ אַשְׁכְּלֹת Deu 32:32 clusters of bitterness (|| רוֺשׁ עִנְּבְי).
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
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