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Bitter
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BIT'TER, a.
1. Sharp, or biting to the taste acrid like wormwood.
2. Sharp cruel severe as bitter enmity. Hebrews 1
3. Sharp, as words, reproachful sarcastic.
4. Sharp to the feeling piercing painful that makes to smart as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.
5. Painful to the mind calamitous poignant as a bitter fate.
6. Afflicted distressed.
The Egyptians made their lives bitter. Exodus 1
7. Hurtful very sinful.
Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jeremiah 2
8. Mournful distressing expressive of misory as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23; Jeremiah 6:31 .
BIT'TER, n. A substance that is bitter. See Bitter.
BIT'TER, n. See Bitts. In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Bitter-end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Bitter'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/bitter.html.
Entry for 'Bitter'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/bitter.html.