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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)
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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, (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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters [fn]of Marah, because they were [fn]bitter; for that reason it was named [fn]Marah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32 -

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,

And from the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of poison,

Their clusters, bitter.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 -

“Why is light given to one burdened with grief,

And life to the bitter of soul,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 -

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:18 -

“He will not allow me to get my breath,

But He saturates me with bitterness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 -

[fn]I am disgusted with my own life;

I will express my complaint freely;

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 -

While another dies with a bitter soul,

Never even [fn]tasting anything good.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 -

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression;

Under his tongue is harm and injustice.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 -

They have all turned aside, together they are corrupt;

There is no one who does good, not even one.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 -

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim,

He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon,

To do His task, His [fn]unusual task,

And to work His work, His [fn]extraordinary work.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:28 -

Grain for bread is crushed,

Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.

Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually [fn]damage it,

He does not thresh it longer.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29 -

“Because of your raging against Me

And because your complacency has come up to My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose

And My bridle in your lips,

And I will turn you back by the way that you came.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 -

“Yet I planted you as a choice vine,

A completely faithful seed.

How then have you turned yourself before Me

Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17 -

I did not sit in a circle of revelers and celebrate.

Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone,

For You filled me with indignation.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 -

He has filled me with bitterness,

He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 -

Remember my misery and my homelessness, the wormwood and [fn]bitterness.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:24 -

“And there will no longer be for the house of Israel a painful thorn or a hurtful thorn bush from any surrounding them who despised them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 -

Do horses run on rocks?

Or does one [fn]plow them with oxen?

Yet you have turned justice into poison,

And the fruit of righteousness into [fn]wormwood,

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