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title: מֹרָה — bitterness of spirit · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֹרָה (4786), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bitterness of spirit. BDB 1906: n.f. id. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֹרָה

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«מֹרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bitterness of spirit** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4786 · **BDB:** מֹרָה

### Glosses

bitterness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bitterness of spirit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4786/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4786/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id., cstr. מֹרַת רוּחַ Gn 26:35 (P) bitterness of spirit (= grief of mind).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מֹרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4786/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 26:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.35/)

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וַתִּהְיֶ֖יןָ מֹ֣רַת ר֑וּחַ לְיִצְחָ֖ק וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.were bitterness of.spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah

*JPS 1917:* And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

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