Greek adjective · G4089
πικρός
pikrospik-ros'
sharp, pointed.; sharp to the senses; of taste, bitter
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pikrós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4089is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4089
sharp (pungent), i.e. acrid (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: 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
pikros is rendered "sharp, pointed.; sharp to the senses; of taste, bitter". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "sharp, pointed.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.James 3:11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
James 3:11πικρόν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in James.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: sharp, pointed., and sharp to the senses; of taste, bitter.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| sharp, pointed. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJames 3:11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? |
| sharp to the senses; of taste, bitteropposite to γλυκύ, Jas.3:11; metaphorically, harsh, bitter | Tagged as
| WhereJames 3:11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? |
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 2, 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
- πικρόν1
- πικρὸν1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular1A-ASN
James
two uses
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
- πικρόνpikronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: bitter
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
- πικρὸνpikronadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: 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.