noun · feminine
pikrias
Strong’sG4088
bitterness
stem pikri-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πικρία, -ας, ἡ
(< πικρός), [in LXX chiefly for מַר, מָרָה and cognate forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4088 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpik-ree'-ah
acridity (especially poison), literally or figuratively
Fromfrom G4089;
King Jamesbitterness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
bitterness:
1 of taste, LXX+4th c.BC+
2 of temper, τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς π. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς γεγονόσι π. Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἡ ἐν τοῖς λόγοις π. Refs 1st c.BC+
3 of circumstances, ἡ τοῦ καιροῦ π. Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pikrias1×πικρία | pikriais |
| object accusative | pikrian | pikriain |
| direct address vocative | pikriar | pikriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pikriau3×πικρίας | pikriaiu |
| to, for dative | pikria | pikriai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pikria is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
pikrias“bitterness”subjectnominative singular1×
Ephesians 4:31pantas pikrias kai thumos kai orgas kai kraugas …Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander …
pikriau“bitterness”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Acts 8:23eis gar cholan pikriau kai sundesmon adikiau horamō sin arōnton.… see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Romans 3:14hoiu tem stomem arau kai pikriau gematō;… mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Hebrews 12:15… charitau tou theou, mē tinas rizas pikriau anō fuarōntas enochlateiō kai dia autau …… God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and …