ΠΙΚΡΟΥΣ, πικρους
PIKROUS, pikrous
Sounds Like: pi-KROOS
Translations: bitter, harsh, painful, grievous, a bitter one
From the root: ΠΙΚΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as bitter, harsh, or painful. It can refer to a literal taste, but more often it is used metaphorically to describe a person's disposition, words, or experiences as unpleasant, severe, or grievous. For example, it might describe bitter jealousy or a bitter experience.
Inflection: Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G4089 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 9:157
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΙΚΡΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΕΙΚΡΑ — bitterly, grievously, severely
- ΠΙΚΡΑΙ — bitter, harsh, acrid, (of) bitter, (to) bitter, (of) harsh, (to) harsh, (of) acrid, (to) acrid
- ΠΙΚΡΑΙΣ — (to) bitter, (to) harsh, (to) painful, (to) grievous
- ΠΙΚΡΑΝ — bitter, a bitter, bitterly
- ΠΙΚΡΑΣ — of bitter, of harsh, of sharp, of severe, of cruel, of acrid
- ΠΙΚΡΟ — bitter, harsh, a bitter thing, a harsh thing
- ΠΙΚΡΟΙ — bitter, harsh, cruel, grievous
- ΠΙΚΡΟΝ — bitter, harsh, painful, a bitter thing
- ΠΙΚΡΟΣ — bitter, sharp, harsh, cruel, a bitter
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΑΤΟΝ — most bitter, very bitter, bitterest, a most bitter thing
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΑΝ — bitterer, more bitter, a bitterer
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΟ — more bitter, more harsh, more grievous, more painful
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more bitter, a more bitter thing, bitterer
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ — more bitter, bitterer
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΩ — to more bitter, for more bitter, to a more bitter, for a more bitter, of more bitter
- ΠΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΩΝ — of more bitter, of bitterer
- ΠΙΚΡΟΥ — of bitter, of a bitter, bitter, sharp, harsh, cruel
- ΠΙΚΡΩ — bitterly, sharply, severely, harshly, grievously
- ΠΙΚΡΩΝ — of bitter, of harsh, of painful, of grievous
- ΠΙΚΡΩΣ — bitterly, grievously, harshly, severely, painfully
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