- Original: מרר - Transliteration: Marar - Phonetic: maw-rar' - Definition: 1. to be bitter a. (Qal) to be bitter b. (Piel) 1. to show bitterness 2. to make bitter c. (Hiphil) to make bitter, embitter d. (Hithpalpel) 1. to embitter oneself 2. to be enraged 2. (TWOT) to be strong, strengthen - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1248 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to trickle (see H4752 ); but used only as a denominative from H4751 ; to be (causatively make) bitter (literally or figuratively): - (be be in deal have make) bitter (-ly -ness) be moved with choler (be have sorely it) grieved (-eth) provoke vex. Total KJV Occurrences: 16 • anger, 2 Daniel 8:7; Daniel 11:11 • bitter, 2 Exodus 1:14; Isaiah 24:9 • bitterly, 2 Ruth 1:20; Isaiah 22:4 • bitterness, 4 Isaiah 38:17; Lamentations 1:4; Zechariah 12:10(2) • grieved, 2 Genesis 49:23; 1 Samuel 30:6 • grieveth, 1 Ruth 1:13 • provoke, 1 Exodus 23:21 • vexed, 2 2 Kings 4:27; Job 27:2