Brown-Driver-Briggs
I.
מָרַר verb be bitter (Late Hebrew
id.; Assyrian
marâru and derivatives Dl
HWB 427; Arabic
become roused (of bile), II.
make bitter, IV.
become bitter;
bitter; Ethiopic
; Aramaic
,
מְרַר); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular מַר Isaiah 38:17 2t.; 3 feminine singular מָ֫רָה 1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Kings 4:27; Imperfect3masculine singular יֵמַר Isaiah 24:9; — be bitter:
1 literal יֵמַר שֵׁכָר לְשֹׁתָיו Isaiah 24:9.
2 figurative מָ֫רָה נֶפֶשׁ 1 Samuel 30:6 the soul of all the people was bitter against (עַלֿ); נַפְשָׁהּ מָ֫רָהלָֿהּ 2 Kings 4:27 her soul, it is bitter to her (i.e. she is in bitter distress); impersonal מַרלִֿי מְאֹד מִכֶּם Ruth 1:13 it is very bitter to me on your account (I am much distressed), compare Lamentations 1:4. — לְשָׁלוֺם מַרלִֿי מָ֑ר Isaiah 38:17 is dubious; CheComm. for (my) welfare was it (so) bitter to me, (so) bitter, compare Brd; so De Kau (treating מר apparently as adjective ); < Drechsl. Di for my welfare did the bitter become bitter to me (מָ֑ר adjective); Lo Gr, compare Buhl (sub מַר adjective ), read מָר for מַר (√ מור), the bitter is changed for me into welfare; CheHpt strike out מָ֑ר; Du (after ᵐ5) strike out clause as gloss.
Pi`el Imperfect1singular אֲמָרֵר Isaiah 22:4; 3masculine plural וַיְמָֽרֲרוּ Exodus 1:14, suffix וַיְמָֽרֲרֻהוּ Genesis 49:23; — make bitter, shew bitterness: —
1 ׳וַיְמ Genesis 49:23 (poem) and the archers shewed bitterness (i.e. bitter hostility) toward him (suffix of indirect object); אֲמָרֵר בַּבֶּכִ֑י Isaiah 22:4 I will shew bitterness in weeping (= weep bitterly).
2 אֶתחַֿיֵּיהֶם ׳וַיְמ Exodus 1:14 (P) and they made their lives bitter by slavery.
Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular הֵמַר Ruth 1:20; Job 27:2; Imperfect2masculine singular תַּמֵּר Exodus 23:21 (but read תֶּ֫מֶר √ מרה
Hiph`il q. v.); Infinitive absolute הָמֵר Zechariah 12:10 (twice in verse); — make bitter, shew bitterness:
1 שַׁדַּי הֵמַר נַפְשִׁי Job 27:2 Shadday, who hath embittered my soul; הֵמַר שַׁדַּי לִי מְאֹד Ruth 1:20.
2 וְהָמֵר עָלָיו כְּהָמֵר עַלהַֿבְּכוֺר Zechariah 12:10 and a bitter outcry (= literally shewing bitterness; "" מִסְמֵּד, סָפַד) over him, like a bitter outcry over the first-born.
Hithpalpel Imperfect וְיִתְמַרְמַר Daniel 11:11 and the king of the south shall embitter himself (be enraged); אֶלֿ ׳וַיִּתְמ Daniel 8:7 and he was enraged against.
