STRONGS NUMBER H4843


Word Summary
marar: to be bitter
Original Word: מָרַר
Transliteration: marar
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-rar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be bitter
Meaning: to be, bitter
Strong's Concordance
be in, deal, have, make bitterly be moved with choler, have sorely, it grieved,

A primitive root; properly, to trickle (see mar); but used only as a denominative from mar; to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively) -- (be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, - ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex.

see HEBREW mar

see HEBREW mar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4843. marar

I. מָרַרverb be bitter (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian marâru and derivatives DlHWB 427; Arabic become roused (of bile), II. make bitter, IV. become bitter; bitter; Ethiopic ; Aramaic , מְרַר‎); —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular מַרIsaiah 38:17 2t.; 3 feminine singular מָ֫רָה1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Kings 4:27; Imperfect3masculine singular יֵמַרIsaiah 24:9; — be bitter:

1 literal לְשֹׁתָיו שֵׁכָר יֵמַרIsaiah 24:9.

2 figurative נֶפֶשׁ מָ֫רָה1 Samuel 30:6 the soul of all the people was bitter against (עַלֿ‎); מָ֫רָהלָֿהּ נַפְשָׁהּ2 Kings 4:27 her soul, it is bitter to her (i.e. she is in bitter distress); impersonal מִכֶּם מְאֹד מַרלִֿיRuth 1:13 it is very bitter to me on your account (I am much distressed), compare Lamentations 1:4. — מָ֑ר מַרלִֿי לְשָׁלוֺםIsaiah 38:17 is dubious; CheComm. for (my) welfare was it (so) bitter to me, (so) bitter, compare Brd; so De Kau (treating מר‎ apparently as adjective ); < Drechsl. Di for my welfare did the bitter become bitter to me (מָ֑ר‎ adjective); Lo Gr, compare Buhl (sub מַר‎ adjective ), read מָר‎ for מַר‎ (√ מור‎), the bitter is changed for me into welfare; CheHpt strike out מָ֑ר‎; Du (after ᵐ5‎) strike out clause as gloss.

Pi`el Imperfect1singular אֲמָרֵרIsaiah 22:4; 3masculine plural וַיְמָֽרֲרוּExodus 1:14, suffix וַיְמָֽרֲרֻהוּGenesis 49:23; — make bitter, shew bitterness:

1 ׳וַיְמGenesis 49:23 (poem) and the archers shewed bitterness (i.e. bitter hostility) toward him (suffix of indirect object); בַּבֶּכִ֑י אֲמָרֵרIsaiah 22:4 I will shew bitterness in weeping (= weep bitterly).

2 ׳וַיְמ אֶתחַֿיֵּיהֶםExodus 1:14 (P) and they made their lives bitter by slavery.

Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular הֵמַרRuth 1:20; Job 27:2; Imperfect2masculine singular תַּמֵּרExodus 23:21 (but read תֶּ֫מֶר‎ √ מרה

Hiph`il q. v.); Infinitive absolute הָמֵרZechariah 12:10 (twice in verse); — make bitter, shew bitterness:

1 נַפְשִׁי הֵמַר שַׁדַּיJob 27:2 Shadday, who hath embittered my soul; מְאֹד לִי שַׁדַּי הֵמַרRuth 1:20.

2 עַלהַֿבְּכוֺר כְּהָמֵר עָלָיו וְהָמֵרZechariah 12:10 and a bitter outcry (= literally shewing bitterness; "" סָפַד מִסְמֵּד,‎) over him, like a bitter outcry over the first-born.

Hithpalpel Imperfect וְיִתְמַרְמַרDaniel 11:11 and the king of the south shall embitter himself (be enraged); ׳וַיִּתְמ אֶלֿ8:7 and he was enraged against.