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bitter

Meaning of “bitter”

Having a sharp, unpleasant taste opposed to sweet; grievous, harsh, painful, sorrowful, resentful, or severe in condition, feeling, speech, or effect.

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38 occurrences36 verses18 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 27:34

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Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 32:24 · retained source text

They shall bee burnt with hunger and deuoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts vpon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

1611 marginal noteHeb. burning coales.

Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 32:32 · retained source text

For their vine is of the vine of Sodome, and of the fields of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

1611 marginal noteOr, is worse then the vine of Sodome. &c.

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