Bitter
מְרִירִיStrong’s H4815meriri (me-ri-ri)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Meriri is the Hebrew word usually translated “bitter”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”
Meaning
- Bitter
How it's translated
- bitter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְרִירִי meriri · bitter
bitter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bitter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIT'TER, adjective
- Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.
- Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity.
- Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.
- Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.
All definitions and other forms of “bitter”
- Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.
- Afflicted; distressed.“The Egyptians made their lives bitter” Exodus 1:14
- Hurtful; very sinful.“Is is an evil and bitter thing” Jeremiah 2:19
- Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23:2Jeremiah 6:26
BIT'TER, noun
A substance that is bitter [See bitter ]
BIT'TER, noun
[See Bitts.]
In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
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.