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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 Box Exo 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters [fn]of Marah, for they were [fn]bitter; therefore it was named [fn]Marah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

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 and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:32

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - “Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:11

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:18 - “He will not allow me to get my breath,
But saturates me with bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 - “[fn]I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - While another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even [fn]tasting anything good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:28

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29 - “Because of your raging against Me
And because your [fn]arrogance has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - “Yet I planted you a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17 - I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers,
Nor did I exult.
Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone,
For You filled me with indignation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 - He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 - Remember my affliction and my [fn]wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:24 - “And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 - Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow [fn]them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into [fn]wormwood,
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