HebrewH0393Adjective
אַכְזָר
akh.zar
“cruel”
3Occurrences
H0393Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave
from an unused root (apparently meaning to act harshly);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
cruel, fierce
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Adjective
Morphology Code
H:A
Full Description
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
אַכְזָר appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Deuteronomy
1
Job
1
Lamentations
1
Key Passages
Deuteronomy 32:33BSB
Their wine is the venom of serpents,the deadly poison of cobras.
Job 30:21BSB
You have ruthlessly turned on me;You oppose me with Your strong hand.
Lamentations 4:3BSB
Even jackals offer their breaststo nurse their young,but the daughter of my people has become cruel,like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.