393. akzar

Lexicon

akzar: cruel, deadly, fierce

Original Word: אַכְזָר
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: akzar
Pronunciation: ahk-ZAHR
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-zawr')
KJV: cruel, fierce
NASB: cruel, deadly, fierce
Word Origin: [from an unused root (apparently meaning to act harshly)]

1. violent
2. (by implication) deadly
3. (also, in a good sense) brave

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.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
cruel, fierce
NASB Translation
cruel (2), deadly (1), fierce (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

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

Forms and Transliterations

אַ֭כְזָר אַכְזָֽר׃ אכזר אכזר׃ לְאַכְזָ֔ר לְאַכְזָ֣ר לאכזר ’aḵ·zār ’aḵzār achZar Achzor lə’aḵzār lə·’aḵ·zār leachZar

Englishman's Concordance

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

4 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 393
4 Occurrences

’aḵ·zār — 1 Occ.
’aḵ·zār — 1 Occ.
lə·’aḵ·zār — 2 Occ.