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Strong's #4087 - πικραίνω
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- to make bitter
- to produce a bitter taste in the stomach
- to embitter. exasperate
- render angry, indignant
- to be embittered, irritated
- to visit with bitterness, to grieve (deal bitterly with)
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πικρ-αίνω,
make sharp or keen, esp. to the taste, π. τὴν κοιλίαν make it bitter, Revelation 10:9 : — Pass., τὸ στόμα πικραίνεται Hp. Acut. 30: opp. γλυκαίνεσθαι, Arist. Ph. 244b20 .
2. metaph., embitter, irritate, τὴν ψυχήν LXX Job 27:2; τὴν ἀκοήν affect it harshly, opp. γλυκαίνω, D.H. Comp. 12, 15; make harsh, νόμους cj. in A. Eu. 693: — Pass., to be exasperated, embittered, Pl. Lg. 731d, Theoc. 5.120; ὁ ζωγράφος πονεῖ τι καὶ π . vexes himself, Antiph. 144.3; π. ἐπί τισι LXX Exodus 16:20; ἔν τισι ib. Ruth 1:20; also ἐπικράνθη μοι it grieved me, ib. 13 .
3. of style, make harsh or rugged, διάλεκτον D.H. Dem. 55, cf. 34 .
πικραίνω: future πικράνω; passive, present πικραίνομαι; 1 aorist ἐπικρανθην; (πικρός, which see);
1. properly, to make bitter: τά ὕδατα, passive, Revelation 8:11; τήν κοιλίαν, to produce a bitter taste in the stomach (Vulg. amarico), Revelation 10:9f.
2. tropically, to embitter, exasperate, i. e. render angry, indignant; passive, to be embittered, irritated (Plato, Demosthenes, others): πρός τινα, Colossians 3:19 (Athen. 6, p. 242 c.; ἐπί τινα, Exodus 16:20; Jeremiah 44:15
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πικραίνω
(< πικρός ),
[in LXX for H4775, H7107, etc.;]
to make bitter: Revelation 10:9; pass., Revelation 8:11; Revelation 10:10; metaph., to embitter (LXX) : pass., seq. πρός , Colossians 3:19.†
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See s.v. πολυμερῶς. For the adj. πολύτροπος cf. P Flor I. 33.15 (iv/A.D.). In MGr πολύτροπος has a good sense, ";adroit.";
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