H4834 — marats
The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.
marats — pronounced maw-rats
a primitive root; properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate:--embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore.
4 occurrences in the KJV.
1 Kings 2:8
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
