KJV dictionary & concordance
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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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 27:34
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
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.
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:
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.
For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut vp, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
WHEN Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
¶ When Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the citie, and cried with a loud and a bitter crie:
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against mee, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
1611 marginal notePsal. 25.7.
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning.
1611 marginal noteHebr. my hand.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bowes to shoote their arrowes, euen bitter words:
1611 marginal notePsal.11.3.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
But her end is bitter as wormewood, sharpe as a two edged sword.
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
The full soule loatheth an honie combe: but to the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.
1611 marginal noteHeb. treadeth vnder foote.
1611 marginal noteIob 6.7.
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