mar · bitter

What it means

mar (מַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bitter”.

Bitterness; bitterly.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Bitter in taste, unpleasant to the tongue.
2. Deep pain of soul, or the cruelty that causes it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bitter ×25
• bitterness ×11
• bitterly ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×6
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• Esther×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me too, my father!”

• Exodus 15:23

  They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water of Marah, because it was bitter; that is why it was named Marah.

• Numbers 5:18

  And the priest shall set the woman before YHWH and let loose the hair of the head of the woman and put on her palms the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:19

  And the priest shall make her swear and say to the woman, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness while under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:23

  And the priest shall write these imprecations in a scroll and wipe them off into the water of bitterness.

• Numbers 5:24

  And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse shall enter into her to become bitter.

• Numbers 5:27

  When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be that if she has made herself unclean and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse shall enter into her to become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh sag, and the woman shall become an imprecation among her people.

• Judges 18:25

  And the sons of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, or men bitter of soul will attack you, and you will lose your life and the lives of your household.”

• 1 Samuel 1:10

  She was bitter of soul, and she prayed to YHWH and wept greatly.

• 1 Samuel 15:32

  Samuel said, “Bring near to me Agag king of Amalek.” And Agag went to him in good spirits; and Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death has turned aside.”

• 1 Samuel 22:2

  There gathered to him every man in distress, every man who had a creditor, and every man bitter of soul, and he became commander over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.

• 2 Samuel 2:26

  Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitterness in the end? And how long will you not tell the people to turn back from following their brothers?”

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  And Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war, and he will not spend the night with the people.

• Esther 4:1

  And Mordecai knew all that had been done, and Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried out with a great and bitter cry;

• Job 3:20

  Why does he give light to the one who suffers, and life to the bitter of soul,

• Job 7:11

  So I too will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

• Job 10:1

  My soul loathes my life; I will let loose my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

• Job 21:25

  And another dies with a bitter soul, and did not eat of the good.

• Psalms 64:3

  who have sharpened like a sword their tongue; they have drawn their arrow, a bitter word,

• Proverbs 5:4

  but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword with two edges.

• Proverbs 27:7

  A sated soul tramples the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

• Proverbs 31:6

  Give intoxicating drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul;

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  And I find more bitter than death the woman who is traps, and her heart nets, her hands bonds; the one who is good before Elohim will escape from her, but the sinner will be caught by her.

• Isaiah 5:20

  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

• Isaiah 33:7

  Look, their valiant ones cry out outside; the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

• Isaiah 38:15

  What shall I say? He said it to me, and he himself has done it; I shall walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Look, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you have loved my soul out of the pit of nothingness, for you have cast behind your back all my sins.

• Jeremiah 2:19

  Your evil will discipline you, and your apostasies will rebuke you; know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake YHWH your Elohim, and that the dread of me is not in you, declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 4:18

  Your way and your deeds have done these things to you; this is your evil, for it is bitter, for it has reached to your heart.”

• Lamentations 1:4

  The roads of Zion mourn, because no one comes to the appointed feast; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins are grieved, and as for her, it is bitter for her.

• Ezekiel 3:14

  And a spirit lifted me up and took me, and I went bitter, in the fury of my spirit, and the hand of YHWH was strong upon me.

• Ezekiel 27:30

  And they will make their voice heard over you, and cry out bitterly, and throw dust on their heads; in ashes they will roll.

• Ezekiel 27:31

  And they will make themselves bald for you, and gird on sackcloth, and weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter lamentation.

• Amos 8:10

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into a funeral song; and I will bring up on all loins sackcloth, and on every head baldness; and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

• Habakkuk 1:6

  For look, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which marches through the breadth of the earth to possess dwellings not its own.

• Zephaniah 1:14

  Near is the great day of YHWH, near and hastening greatly; the sound of the day of YHWH: bitterly there the mighty man raises the war cry.

And 3 more times.