Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4844
מְרֹר
merormer-ore'
bitterness
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉrôr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4844is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4844
a bitter herb
The King James renders it: bitter(-ness).
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
meror is rendered "bitterness". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Exodus 12:8מְרֹרִ֖ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and bitter herbs1
- bitter herbs1
- with the bitter things1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְרֹרָה | merorah | gall | Uses4 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים1
- וּמְרֹרִ֖ים1
- מְרֹרִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine plural1HRd/Aampa
Exodus
one use
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- מְרֹרִ֖יםmerorimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: bitter herbs
Numbers
one use
Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
- וּמְרֹרִ֖יםumerorimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and bitter herbs
Lamentations
one use
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- בַמְּרוֹרִ֖יםvamerorimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: with the bitter things
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.