Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4846
מְרֹרָה
merorahmer-o-raw'
gall
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉrôrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4846is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4846
properly, bitterness; concretely, a bitter thing; specifically bile; also venom (of a serpent)
The King James renders it: bitter (thing), gall.
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
merorah is rendered "gall". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32:32מְרֹרֹ֖ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three 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
- bitter1
- bitter things1
- from gall-bladder his1
- venom of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְרֹר | meror | bitterness | Uses3 |
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
- מִֽמְּרֹרָת֥וֹ1
- מְרוֹרַ֖ת1
- מְרֹר֑וֹת1
- מְרֹרֹ֖ת1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · feminine plural2HAafpa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
Deuteronomy
one use
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
- מְרֹרֹ֖תmerorotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: bitter
Job
three uses
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
- מְרֹר֑וֹתmerorotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: bitter things
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- מְרוֹרַ֖תmeroratnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: venom of
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
- מִֽמְּרֹרָת֥וֹmimeroratopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from gall-bladder his
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.