Mârar — H4843

Definition

verb

to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively)

1. to be bitter
1. (Qal) to be bitter
2. (Piel)
1. to show bitterness
2. to make bitter
3. (Hiphil) to make bitter, embitter
4. (Hithpalpel)
1. to embitter oneself
2. to be enraged
2. (TWOT) to be strong, strengthen

Usually translated as

bitterness, bitter, bitterly, grieved, grieveth, provoke, be moved with choler, vex

Origin

a primitive root; properly, to trickle (see H4752); but used only as a denominative from H4751

• Mar (H4752)
• Mar (H4751)

Greek equivalents

• apeithéō (G544)
• thymóō (G2373)
• odynáō (G3600)
• orgízō (G3710)
• pikrós (G4089)
• pikrōs (G4090)

Occurrences

Mârar occurs 16 times in 15 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (2), Ruth (2), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (1), Job (1), Isaiah (3), Lamentations (1), Daniel (2), Zechariah (1)

• Genesis 49:23 — The archers have sorely grieved (וַֽיְמָרֲרֻ֖הוּ) him, and shot at him, and hated him:
• Exodus 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter (וַיְמָרְר֨וּ) with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
• Exodus 23:21 — Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke (תַּמֵּ֣ר) him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
• Ruth 1:13 — Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth (מַר) me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
• Ruth 1:20 — And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly (הֵמַ֥ר) with me.
• 1 Samuel 30:6 — And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
• 2 Kings 4:27 — And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed (מָֽרָה) within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
• Job 27:2 — As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed (הֵמַ֥ר) my soul;
• Isaiah 22:4 — Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly (אֲמָרֵ֣ר), labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
• Isaiah 24:9 — They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter (יֵמַ֥ר) to them that drink it.
• Isaiah 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness (מַר): but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
• Lamentations 1:4 — The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness (מַר).
• Daniel 8:7 — And I saw him come close unto the ram, and (וַיִּתְמַרְמַ֤ר) he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
• Daniel 11:11 — And the king of the south shall (וְיִתְמַרְמַר֙) be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
• Zechariah 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness (וְהָמֵ֥ר) for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
• Zechariah 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness (כְּהָמֵ֥ר) for his firstborn.