Lexical Definition

‎מָאַר‎ mâʼar (maw-ar') to malign ^H:V
a primitive root

fretting, picking.

• to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter, i.e. be painful

1) (Hiphil) to pain, prick, irritate, be in pain

See Greek: πικρία

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מָאַר‎] verb (compare Arabic excite hostility, irritate, break open, of a wound); —

Hiph`il prick, pain Participle ‎מַמְאִיר‎ Ezek 28:24 ‎מַמְאֶ֫רֶת‎ Lev 13:51 + 2 t.; — of thorn ‎׳‎‎סִלּוֺן מ‎ Ezek 28:24 (figurative of oppressors of Israel,); || ‎קוֺץ מַכְאִב‎); elsewhere of leprosy (‎צָרַעַת‎) = malignant ? Lev 13:51; Lev 13:52; Lev 14:44 (all P; but ⅏ in all these has ‎מרראת‎, √ ‎מרא‎ = ‎מרה‎ be obstinate, compare Thes^816b Di).

‎מַאֲרָב‎ see ‎ארב‎. ‎מְאֵרָה‎ see ‎ארר‎. [‎מִבְדָּלָה‎], ‎מִבְדָּלוֺת‎ see ‎בדל‎. ‎מָבוֺא‎ see ‎בוא‎. ‎מְבוּכָה‎ see ‎בוך‎.

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