Cruel
אַכְזָרִיStrong’s H0394akhzari (akh-za-ri)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Akhzari is the Hebrew word usually translated “cruel”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:”
Meaning
- Cruel
How it's translated
- cruel 4
- a cruel 3
- to a cruel 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 11:17The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
- Proverbs 12:10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
- Proverbs 17:11An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- Isaiah 13:9Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
- Jeremiah 6:23They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
- Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Hebrew dictionary
אַכְזָרִי akhzari · cruel
cruel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cruel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRUEL, adjective
[Latin See Crude and Rude.]
- Disposed to give pain to others, in body or mind; willing or pleased to torment, vex or afflict; inhuman; destitute of pity, compassion or kindness; fierce; ferocious; savage; barbarous; hardhearted; applied to persons or their dispositions.“They are cruel and have no mercy” Jeremiah 6:23
- Inhuman; barbarous; savage; causing pain, grief or distress; exerted in tormenting, vexing or afflicting.“Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel” Genesis 49:7“The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel” Proverbs 12:10“Others had trials of cruel mockings” Hebrews 11:36
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.