Bitter

Biblical Concept: Bitter

Findings:

Bitter herbs.

Bitter lives, hard labor.

Bitter water.

Bitter affliction.

Bitter destruction.

Bitter archers.

Bitter grapes.

Bitter sword.

Bitter soul.

Bitter speech.

Bitter writing.

Bitter life.

Bitter lamentation.

Bitter weeping.

Bitter grief.

Bitter mourning.

Bitter anger.

Bitter day.

Bitter cry.

Water of bitterness.

Bitter wormwood.

Bitter thing.

Bitterness of death.

More bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares.

Woe: substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Wicked, evil, bitter, relationship.

Ways, deeds, evil, bitter, heart, relationship.

Rival, provoke, bitterly, irritate, relationship.

Bitter Zion.

Bitter lamentation.

Bitter strong drink.

Bitter soul.

Bitter saturation.

Bitter heart.

Bitter son.

Bitter gall.

Bitter stomach.

Bitter mouth.

Bitter welfare.

Bitter, jealous, selfish ambition, lie, relationship.

Bitter, wrath, anger, clamor, slander, malice, put away, relationship.

“Put away” = avrqh,tw / artheto / “lift up” / an imperative aorist passive verb = a strong exhortation to have bitterness “be lifted away.”

“Put away” = Ephesians 4:29-32 ²⁹ Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. ³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. ³² And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Kind, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, counters bitterness.

Bitter, trouble, defiled, relationship.

Grace counters bitterness.

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Bitter

^NASGenesis 27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!" (Bitter cry.)

^NAS Exodus 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them. (Bitter lives, hard labor.)

^NASExodus 12:8 'And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.(Bitter herbs.)

^NASExodus 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah. (Bitter water.)

^NASNumbers 9:11 'In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. (Bitter herbs.)

^NASDeuteronomy 32:24 'They shall be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust. (Bitter destruction.)

³² "For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of poison, Their clusters, bitter. (Bitter grapes.)

^NAS2 Samuel 2:26 Then Abner called to Joab and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long will you refrain from telling the people to turn back from following their brothers?" (Bitter sword.)

^NAS2 Kings 14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel. (Bitter affliction.)

^NASJob 3:20 "Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul; (Bitter soul.)

^NASJob 13:26 "For Thou dost write bitter things against me, And dost make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. (Bitter writing.)

^NASJob 21:25 While another dies with a bitter soul, Never even tasting anything good. (Bitter soul.)

^NASPsalm 64:3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow, (Bitter speech.)

^NASProverbs 5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. (Bitter wormwood.)

^NASProverbs 27:7 A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet. (Bitter thing.)

^NASProverbs 31:6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to him whose life is bitter. (Bitter life.)

^NASEcclesiastes 7:26 And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her. (More bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares.)

^NASIsaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Woe: substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.)

^NASIsaiah 24:9 They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. (Bitter strong drink.)

^NASJeremiah 2:19 "Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will reprove you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to forsake the LORD your God, And the dread of Me is not in you," declares the Lord God of hosts. (Wicked, evil, bitter, relationship.)

^NASJeremiah 4:18 "Your ways and your deeds Have brought these things to you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!" (Ways, deeds, evil, bitter, heart, relationship.)

^NASJeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us. (Bitter lamentation.)

^NASJeremiah 31:15 Thus says the LORD, "A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more." (Bitter weeping.)

^NASLamentations 1:4 The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter. (Bitter Zion.)

^NASEzekiel 21:6 "As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight. (Bitter grief.)

^NASEzekiel 27:31 "Also they will make themselves bald for you And gird themselves with sackcloth; And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning. (Bitter mourning.)

^NASHosea 12:14 Ephraim has provoked to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him, And bring back his reproach to him. (Bitter anger.)

^NASAmos 8:10 "Then I shall turn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyone's loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day. (Bitter day.)

^NASMicah 2:4 "On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.' (Bitter lamentation.)

^NASZechariah 12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASJames 3:11 Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? (3:10-11, Bitter mouth.)

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. (Bitter, jealous, selfish ambition, and lie relationship.)

^NASRevelation 8:11 and the name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood; and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. (Bitter water.)

^NASRevelation 10:9 And I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. And he said to me, "Take it, and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." (Bitter stomach.)

¹⁰ And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. (Bitter stomach.)

Bitterly

^NASGenesis 49:23 "The archers bitterly attacked him, And shot at him and harassed him; (Bitter archers.)

^NASJudges 21:2 So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASRuth 1:20 And she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

^NAS1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival, however, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb. (Rival, provoke, bitterly, irritate, relationship.)

¹⁰ And she, greatly distressed, prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NAS2 Samuel 13:36 And it came about as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, the king's sons came and lifted their voices and wept; and also the king and all his servants wept very bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NAS2 Kings 20:3 "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Thy sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASEzra 10:1 Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASEsther 4:1 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASIsaiah 16:9 Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASIsaiah 22:4 Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people." (Bitter weeping.)

^NASIsaiah 33:7 Behold, their brave men cry in the streets, The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASIsaiah 38:3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Thy sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASJeremiah 13:17 But if you will not listen to it, My soul will sob in secret for such pride; And my eyes will bitterly weep And flow down with tears, Because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASLamentations 1:2 She weeps bitterly in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASEzekiel 27:30 And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes. (Bitter cry.)

^NASZephaniah 1:14 Near is the great day of the LORD, Near and coming very quickly; Listen, the day of the LORD! In it the warrior cries out bitterly. (Bitter cry.)

^NASMatthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, "Before a cock crows, you will deny Me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

^NASLuke 22:62 And he went out and wept bitterly. (Bitter weeping.)

Bitterness

^NASNumbers 5:18 'The priest shall then have the woman stand before the LORD and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and place the grain offering of memorial in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings a curse. (Water of bitterness.)

¹⁹ 'And the priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, "If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse; (Water of bitterness.)

²³ 'The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness. (Water of bitterness.)

²⁴ 'Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness. (Water of bitterness.)

²⁷ 'When he has made her drink the water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse shall go into her and cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. (Water of bitterness.)

^NAS1 Samuel 15:32 Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." (Bitterness of death.)

^NASJob 7:11 "Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (Bitter soul.)

^NASJob 9:18 "He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness. (Bitter saturation.)

^NASJob 10:1 "I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (Bitter soul.)

^NASProverbs 14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy. (Bitter heart.)

^NASProverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him. (Bitter son.)

^NASIsaiah 38:15 "What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I shall wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. (Bitter soul.)

¹⁷ "Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is Thou who hast kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. (Bitter welfare.)

^NASLamentations 3:5 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. (Bitter life.)

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. (Bitter life.)

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. (Bitter life.)

^NASEzekiel 27:31 "Also they will make themselves bald for you And gird themselves with sackcloth; And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning. (Bitter soul.) (Bitter mourning.)

^NASActs 8:23 "For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." (Bitter gall.)

^NASRomans 3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness"; (Bitter mouth.)

^NASEphesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. (Bitter, wrath, anger, clamor, slander, malice relationship.) (“Put away” = Ephesians 4:29-32 ²⁹ Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. ³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. ³² And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.) (Kind, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, counters bitterness.) ( “Put away” = avrqh,tw / artheto / “lift up” / an imperative aorist passive verb = a strong exhortation to have bitterness “be lifted away.”)

^NASHebrews 12:15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; (Bitter, trouble, defiled, relationship.) (Grace counters bitterness.)

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