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Verses
96 results- VerseProverbs 23:32In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
- VerseJob 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Verse1 Samuel 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
- VerseProverbs 5:4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- VersePsalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
People
3 results- PersonElijahThe Tishbite who shut heaven for three years and a half, called down fire on Carmel, heard the still small voice at Horeb, and went up by a whirlwind — the prophet whose return…
- PersonRuthThe Moabitess who clave to Naomi — "thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God" — gleaned in the field of Boaz, and became great-grandmother to David: a Gentile grafted…
- PersonNaomiElimelech's widow who returned from Moab calling herself Mara — "the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me" — and whose emptiness God filled through Ruth's faithfulness and…
Places
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH4784 מָרָה · mârâh (Hebrew)to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant). The Hebrew word stands 45 times in the original text.
- WordH4805 מְרִי · mᵉrîy (Hebrew)bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) rebellion. The Hebrew word stands 23 times in the original text.
- WordH4846 מְרֹרָה · mᵉrôrâh (Hebrew)properly, bitterness. The Hebrew word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH4964 מֶתֶג · metheg (Hebrew)a bit. The Hebrew word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH4844 מְרֹר · mᵉrôr (Hebrew)a bitter herb. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
Themes
4 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemeObedienceObedience enters the story at the very first command. In Eden, the boundary God sets — one tree, one prohibition — is the whole test of the relationship (Gen 2:17), and the…
Topics
19 results- TopicAbitalA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAbitubA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAmbitionA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicArbitrationA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicBackbitingA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
4 results- ProphecyBabylon's Perpetual DesolationBabylon would be permanently desolate, never again inhabited.
- ProphecyPetra Inhabited by AnimalsEdom's strongholds (including Petra) would become inhabited only by wild animals.
- ProphecyBabylon Becomes Haunt of Desert CreaturesIsaiah predicted that Babylon would become uninhabited, unfit even for Bedouin encampments or shepherd's folds, and overtaken by wild desert creatures.
- ProphecyDamascus Becomes a Ruinous HeapIsaiah predicted Damascus would cease to be a city and become a ruinous heap—a remarkable claim since Damascus claims to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in…
Voices
27 results- VoicePalladius of GalatiaPalladius was born in Galatia, in central Asia Minor, about 363 or 364. In 386 he went to Egypt to see the monks, and the rest of his life came out of that decision. He spent…
- VoiceNerses of LambronNerses was born in 1153 at the castle of Lambron in Cilicia — Armenian Cilicia, the kingdom Armenians had built along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor after the Seljuk…
- VoiceJohn MacArthurJohn Fullerton MacArthur Jr. was born in Los Angeles on June 19, 1939, into a family line of preachers. His father, Jack MacArthur, was a pastor and radio preacher; the…
- VoiceCosmas IndicopleustesCosmas was an Alexandrian merchant who spent his working life at sea. He sailed the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, traded along the coast of East Africa, and went inland into…
- VoiceA.W. PinkArthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham, England, on April 1, 1886, into a corn merchant's family. He was a bright young man who went looking for spiritual reality in the…