Hebrew adjective · H394
אַכְזָרִי
akzariak-zawr-ree'
cruel
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼakzârîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H394is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H394
terrible
The King James renders it: cruel (one).
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
akzari is rendered "cruel". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 5:9lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
Proverbs 5:9לְאַכְזָרִֽי׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cruel4
- a cruel3
- to a cruel1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַכְזָר | akzar | cruel | Uses4 |
| אַכְזָב | akzab | deceptive | Uses2 |
| אַכְזְרִיּוּת | akzeriuth | cruel | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- אַכְזָרִ֥י3
- אַכְזָרִֽי׃2
- אַ֝כְזָרִ֗י1
- אַכְזָרִ֔י1
- לְאַכְזָרִֽי׃1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular7HAamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
Proverbs
four uses
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- לְאַכְזָרִֽי׃leakhzaripreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to a cruel
A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.
- אַכְזָרִֽי׃ʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: a cruel
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
- אַכְזָרִֽי׃ʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: cruel
An evil man seeks only rebellion; a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
- אַ֝כְזָרִ֗יʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: cruel
Isaiah
one use
Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
- אַכְזָרִ֥יʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: a cruel
Jeremiah
three uses
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
- אַכְזָרִ֥יʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: cruel
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
- אַכְזָרִ֔יʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: a cruel
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
- אַכְזָרִ֥יʾakhzariadjective · masculine singulartagged: 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.