Greek verb · G4087
πικραίνω
pikrainopik-rah'-ee-no
to embitter
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pikraínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4087
to embitter (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: be (make) bitter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pikraino is rendered "to embitter". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Colossians 3:19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:19πικραίνεσθε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do be harsh1
- it will make bitter1
- they were made bitter1
- was made bitter1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπικράνθη1
- ἐπικράνθησαν.¶1
- πικραίνεσθε1
- πικρανεῖ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FAI-3S
- verb · present passive, command · 2nd person plural1V-PPM-2P
Colossians
one use
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
- πικραίνεσθεpikrainestheverb · present passive, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do be harsh
Revelation
three uses
The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.
- ἐπικράνθησαν.¶epikranthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were made bitter
And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
- πικρανεῖpikraneiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it will make bitter
So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
- ἐπικράνθηepikrantheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was made bitter
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.