מְרֹרָה
merora · bitter thing, venom
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4846 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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merora (מְרֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bitter thing, venom”.
A bitter thing; also gall or the venom of a snake.
How to say it
me·ro·ra
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
- Something foul-tasting; poison.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bitter ×2
- gall ×2
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; they have bitter clusters.
- Job 13:26
For you write against me bitter things and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 20:14
his bread in his bowels is turned; the gall of vipers it is within him.
- Job 20:25
He draws it out, and it comes out from his back, and the lightning goes from his gall; upon him are terrors.