מַר mar — bitter (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, × great, heavy.
or (feminine) מָרָה; from H4843; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly.
mar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
מַר Lam 1:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›