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bitterness

Meaning of “bitterness”

1. Deep grief, anguish, or painful distress. 2. A bitter or harmful disposition, condition, or expression, including resentment or hostility.

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22 occurrences21 verses12 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: 1 Samuel 1:10

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Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 38:17 · retained source text

Behold, for peace I had great bitternesse, but thou hast in loue to my soule deliuered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.

1611 marginal noteOr, on my peace came great bitternesse.

1611 marginal noteHebr. thou hast loued me from the pit.

Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Lamentations 1:4 · retained source text

The wayes of Zion do mourne, because none come to the solemne feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitternesse.

Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Lamentations 3:15 · retained source text

Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bitternesses.

Ezekiel 3:14
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 3:14 · retained source text

So the spirit lifted me vp, and tooke me away, and I went in bitternesse, in the heate of my spirit, but the hand of the LORD was strong vpon mee.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bitter.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hot anger.

Ezekiel 21:6
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 21:6 · retained source text

Sigh therefore thou sonne of man with the breaking of thy loynes, and with bitternesse sigh before their eyes.

Ezekiel 27:31
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:31 · retained source text

And they shall make themselues vtterly balde for thee, and girde them with sackecloth, and they shall weepe for thee with bitternesse of heart and bitter wailing.

Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Zechariah 12:10 · retained source text

And I wil powre vpon the house of Dauid, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall looke vpon me whom they haue pearced, and they shal mourne for him, as one mourneth for his onely sonne, and shall be in bitternesse for him, as one that is in bitternesse for his first borne.

1611 marginal noteIoh.19.34, 37. reuel.1.7.

Acts 8:23
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 8:23 · retained source text

For I perceiue that thou art in the gall of bitternesse, and in the bond of iniquitie.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ephesians 4:31 · retained source text

Let all bitternes, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and euill speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

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