Hebrew adjective · H393
אַכְזָר
akzarak-zawr'
cruel
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼakzâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H393is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H393
violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave
The King James renders it: cruel, fierce.
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
akzar is rendered "cruel". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Deuteronomy 32:33אַכְזָֽר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into cruel2
- cruel1
- fierce1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַכְזָרִי | akzari | cruel | Uses8 |
| אַכְזָב | akzab | deceptive | Uses2 |
| אַכְזְרִיּוּת | akzeriuth | cruel | Uses1 |
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
- אַ֭כְזָר1
- אַכְזָֽר׃1
- לְאַכְזָ֣ר1
- לְאַכְזָ֔ר1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular2HAamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
Deuteronomy
one use
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- אַכְזָֽר׃ʾakhzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: cruel
Job
two uses
You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
- לְאַכְזָ֣רleakhzarpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: into cruel
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
- אַ֭כְזָרʾakhzoradjective · masculine singulartagged: fierce
Lamentations
one use
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- לְאַכְזָ֔רleakhzarpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: into cruel
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.