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Lexicon :: Strong's G4088 - pikria

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πικρία
Transliteration
pikria (Key)
Pronunciation
pik-ree'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
4x in 2 unique form(s) TR
4x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
20x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:122,839

Strong’s Definitions

πικρία pikría, pik-ree'-ah; from G4089; acridity (especially poison), literally or figuratively:—bitterness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G4088 in the following manner: bitterness (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G4088 in the following manner: bitterness (4x).

  1. bitter gall

    1. extreme wickedness

    2. a bitter root, and so producing a bitter fruit

    3. metaph. bitterness, bitter hatred

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πικρία pikría, pik-ree'-ah; from G4089; acridity (especially poison), literally or figuratively:—bitterness.
STRONGS G4088:
πικρία, πικρίας, ἡ (πικρός), bitterness: χολή πικρίας, equivalent to χολή πικρά (Winers Grammar, 34, 3 b.; Buttmann, § 132, 10), bitter gall, equivalent to extreme wickedness, Acts 8:23; ῤίζα πικρίας (references as above), a bitter root, and so producing bitter fruit, Hebrews 12:15 (from Deuteronomy 29:18, the Alex. manuscript), cf. Bleek at the passage; metaphorically, bitterness, i. e. bitter hatred, Ephesians 4:31; of speech, Romans 3:14 after Psalm 9:28 (Psalms 10:7). (In various uses in the Sept. (Demosthenes, Aristotle), Theophrastus, Polybius, Plutarch, others.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
29:18
Psalms
10:7
Acts
8:23
Romans
3:14
Ephesians
4:31
Hebrews
12:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4088 matches the Greek πικρία (pikria),
which occurs 20 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - And they came to Merrha, and could not drink of Merrha, for it was bitter; therefore he named the name of that place, Bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - (LXX 29:17) Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape is a grape of gall, their cluster is one of bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 - Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:18 - For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 - Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - (LXX 9:28) Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - (LXX 13:3) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:28 - for [fn]I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of [fn]my anger crush you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29 - And thy wrath wherewith thou hast been enraged, and thy rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17 - I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 - Vau. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 - Zain. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:24 - And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 - Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:
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