Bitterness
תַּמְרוּרStrong’s H8563tamrur (tam-rur)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tamrur is the Hebrew word usually translated “bitterness”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.”
Meaning
- Bitterness
How it's translated
- bitterness 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Hosea 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
- Hosea 12:14Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּמְרוּר tamrur · bitterness
bitterness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bitterness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIT'TERNESS, noun
[from bitter.]
A bitter taste; or rather a quality in things which excites a biting disagreeable sensation in the tongue.
- In a figurative sense, extreme enmity, grudge, hatred; or rather an excessive degree or implacableness of passions and emotions; as the bitterness of anger. Ephesians 4:31
- Sharpness; severity of temper.
- Keenness of reproach; piquancy; biting sarcasm.
- Keen sorrow; painful affliction; vexation; deep distress of mind.
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.