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Strong's #4088 - πικρία
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- bitter gall
- extreme wickedness
- a bitter root, and so producing a bitter fruit
- metaph. bitterness, bitter hatred
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πικρ-ία, ἡ,
bitterness:
1 of taste, Thphr. CP 6.10.7, Od. 32, LXX Jeremiah 15:17, Placit. 3.16.2, Dsc. 1.61, etc.
2. of temper, τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς π . D. 21.204, cf. 25.84, Ep. 3.33, Arist. VV 1251a4, Phld. Ir. p.56W.; ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς γεγονόσι π . Plb. 15.4.11; πρὸς τὸν δῆμον Plu. Ccr. 15; ἡ ἐν τοῖς λόγοις π . D.S. 16.88; λόγος π. ἔχων μεμιγμένην χάριτι Plu. Lyc. 19 .
3. of circumstances, ἡ τοῦ καιροῦ π . BGU 417.5 (ii/iii A. D.) .
πικρία, πικρίας, ἡ (πικρός), bitterness: χολή πικρίας, equivalent to χολή πικρά (Winers Grammar, 34, 3 b.; Buttmann, § 132, 10), bitter gall, equivalent to extreme wickedness, Acts 8:23; ῤίζα πικρίας (references as above), a bitter root, and so producing bitter fruit, Hebrews 12:15 (from Deuteronomy 29:18, the Alex. manuscript), cf. Bleek at the passage; metaphorically, bitterness, i. e. bitter hatred, Ephesians 4:31; of speech, Romans 3:14 after Psalm 9:28
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πικρία , -ας , ἡ
(< πικρός ),
[in LXX chiefly for H4751 and cognate forms;]
bitterness;
(a) of taste (Arist., Jeremiah 15:17, al.);
(b) metaph., of temper, character, etc.: Romans 3:14 (LXX), Ephesians 4:31; ῥίζα πικρίας , Hebrews 12:15; χολὴ Papyri, a malignant disposition, Acts 8:23.†
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This late form of the Attic πῶμα, ";drink,"; is seen in Kaibel 244.9 f.—
Φερσεφόνας δ᾽ ἀδίαυλον ὑπὸ στυγερὸν δόμον ἦλθον
παυσιπόνῳ λάθας λουσαμένα πόματι.
Cf. Lob. Phryn. p. 456, and Thackeray Gr. i. p. 79.
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