Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
bitter
Usage: bitter
Meriri means “bitter” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4815 — syllambano (“conceive”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4815 מְרִירִי (mriyriy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mriyriy (mer-ee-ree') adj. 1. bitter, i.e. poisonous [from H4843] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include bitter. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mriyriy (mer-ee-ree') adj. 1. bitter, i.e. poisonous [from H4843] KJV: bitter. Root(s): H4843
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bitter
Usage: bitter
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mriyriy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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1 indexed usage in 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.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H4815.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4815, grouped by book.
Meriri (Strong's H4815) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bitter". mriyriy (mer-ee-ree') adj. 1. bitter, i.e. poisonous [from H4843]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H4815 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4815 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bitter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.