Gloss
to turn sour, make bitter; to become sour, embittered
Forms of the word
Dictionary
πικραίνω
Greek transliteration
pikrainō
Simplified transliteration
pikraino
Principal Parts
πικρανῶ, ἐπίκρανα, -, -, ἐπικράνθην
Numbers
Strong's number
4087
GK Number
4393
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
4
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-2d(4)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for πικραίνω
| Colossians 3:19 | Husbands, love your wives and do (pikrainesthe | πικραίνεσθε | pres pass imperative 2 pl) not become bitter (pikrainesthe | πικραίνεσθε | pres pass imperative 2 pl) toward them. |
| Revelation 8:11 | The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they had been made bitter (epikranthēsan | ἐπικράνθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl). |
| Revelation 10:9 | So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take it and eat it; it will make (pikranei | πικρανεῖ | fut act ind 3 sg) your stomach bitter (pikranei | πικρανεῖ | fut act ind 3 sg), but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” |
| Revelation 10:10 | So I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. In my mouth it was as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter (epikranthē | ἐπικράνθη | aor pass ind 3 sg). |
