אַכְזָרʼakzâr
cruel, fierce (Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 41:2; Job 30:21; Lamentations 4:3)
Pronunciation: ak-zawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H393
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- Job 30:21 You have become cruel toward me. You use your power to persecute me.
- Job 41:10 And since no one dares to disturb it, who then can stand up to me?
- Lamentations 4:3 Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children’s cries, like ostriches in the desert.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).