Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #393 - אַכְזָר akzar (cruel)

Original Word:	אַכְזָר
Transliteration:	akzar
Definition:	cruel, fierce
Part of Speech:	Adjective
Phonetic Spelling:	(ak-zawr')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cruel, fierce

From an unused root (apparently meaning to act harshly); violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave -- cruel, fierce.

Englishman's Concordance

1) cruel, fierce
Part of Speech: adjective
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (apparently meaning to act harshly)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 971a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אַכְזָרadjectivecruel, fierce, of poison (ראֹשׁ) Deuteronomy 32:33; elsewhere of men, fierceJob 41:2; as substantive=a cruel oneJob 30:21 (of God), Lamentations 4:3.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 393. אַכְזָר (akzar) — 4 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 32:33
HEB:וְרֹ֥אשׁ פְּתָנִ֖ים אַכְזָֽר׃
NAS: of serpents, And the deadly poison
KJV: of dragons, and the cruel venom
INT: poison of cobras and the deadly

Job 30:21
HEB: תֵּהָפֵ֣ךְ לְאַכְזָ֣ר לִ֑י בְּעֹ֖צֶם
NAS: You have become cruel to me; With the might
KJV: Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong
INT: have become cruel the might of your hand

Job 41:10
HEB: לֹֽא־ אַ֭כְזָר כִּ֣י יְעוּרֶ֑נּוּ
NAS: No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse
KJV:None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up:
INT: No fierce dares to arouse

Lamentations 4:3
HEB:בַּת־ עַמִּ֣י לְאַכְזָ֔ר [כִּי כ]
NAS: of my people has become cruel Like ostriches
KJV: of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches
INT: the daughter of my people cruel ostrich ostrich

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