Mârats — H4834

Definition

verb

properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate

1. to be or make sick
1. (Niphal) to be grievous or painful
2. (Hiphil) to make sick

Usually translated as

be forcible, grievous, sore, embolden

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• parenochléō (G3926)

Occurrences

Mârats occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (1), Job (2), Micah (1)

• 1 Kings 2:8 — And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous (נִמְרֶ֔צֶת) curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
• Job 6:25 — How forcible (נִּמְרְצ֥וּ) are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
• Job 16:3 — Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth (יַּ֝מְרִֽיצְךָ֗) thee that thou answerest?
• Micah 2:10 — Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore (נִמְרָֽץ) destruction.