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Be sick

מָרַץStrong’s H4834

marats (ma-rats)

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Marats is the Hebrew word usually translated “grievous”, “are painful” and “is it making sick you”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous 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.”
1 Kings 2:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be or make sick(Niphal) to be grievous or painful · (Hiphil) to make sick
How it's translated
  • grievous 2
  • they are painful 1
  • is it making sick you 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 2
  • 1 Kings 1
  • Micah 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מָרַץ marats · be sick

1) to be or make sick 1a) (Niphal) to be grievous or painful 1b) (Hiphil) to make sick

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “grievous” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GRIE'VOUS, adjective

[from grieve, or grief.]

Heavy; oppressive; burdensome; as a grievous load of taxes.

  1. Afflictive; painful; hard to be borne.“Correction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way” Proverbs 15:10
  2. Causing grief or sorrow.“The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son” Genesis 21:11
  3. Distressing.“The famine was very grievous in the land” Genesis 41:31
  4. Great; atrocious.
All definitions
  1. Expressing great uneasiness; as a grievous complaint.
  2. Provoking; offensive; tending to irritate; as grievous words. Proverbs 15:1
  3. Hurtful; destructive; causing mischief; as grievous wolves. Acts 20:29

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.