Greek noun (feminine) · G4088
πικρία
pikriapik-ree'-ah
bitterness
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pikría
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4088is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4088
acridity (especially poison), literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: bitterness.
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
pikria is rendered "bitterness". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:23For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Acts 8:23πικρίας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- of bitterness3
- bitterness1
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.
2 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
- πικρίας3
- πικρία1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Acts
one use
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
- πικρίαςpikriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of bitterness
Romans
one use
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
- πικρίαςpikriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of bitterness
Ephesians
one use
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
- πικρίαpikrianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: bitterness
Hebrews
one use
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
- πικρίαςpikriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of bitterness
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.