1. מְרֹרָה
bitter thing, gall, poison
The corpus record — Hebrew
מְרֹרֹ֖ת
merorah · n.f
bitter thing, gall, poison
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 4 · 0.13/10k
Senses
2. מְרֹרָה
properly, bitterness; concretely, a bitter thing; specifically bile; also venom (of a serpent)
Attestations
- מְרֹרֹ֖ת Deuteronomy 32:32 (BHS)
- מְרֹר֑וֹת Job 13:26 (BHS)
- מְרוֹרַ֖ת Job 20:14 (BHS)
- מִֽ/מְּרֹרָת֥/וֹ Job 20:25 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.