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title: מְרִירִי — bitter · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְרִירִי (4815), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bitter. BDB 1906: adj. bitter. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְרִירִי

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«מְרִירִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bitter** — 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:** 4815 · **BDB:** מְרִירִי

### Glosses

bitter (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bitter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4815/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. bitter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4815/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. bitter;—קֶטֶב מ׳ Dt 32:24 bitter destruction. (On Jb 3:5 v. כִּמְרִיר sub II. כמר.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְרִירִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4815/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 32:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.24/)

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מְזֵ֥י רָעָ֛ב וּלְחֻ֥מֵי רֶ֖שֶׁף וְקֶ֣טֶב מְרִירִ֑י וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמוֹת֙ אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּ֔ם עִם־חֲמַ֖ת זֹחֲלֵ֥י עָפָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[they.will.be\].weakened of.famine and eaten of.plague and destruction bitter and tooth of.animals I.will.send on them with \[the\].venom of.\[things.which\].crawl of.\[the\].dust

*JPS 1917:* The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.

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