# H3992 מָאַר

מָאַר (mâʼar), Strong’s H3992: to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter, i.e. be painful KJV: fretting, picking.. Occurs 4 times.

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*mâʼar* — to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter, i.e. be painful

KJV: fretting, picking.

Occurs 4 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מָאַר] vb. (cf. Ar. excite hostility, irritate, break open, of a wound);—
- Hiph. prick, pain

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 13:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=51) — He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the…
- [Leviticus 13:52](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=52) — He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the…
- [Leviticus 14:44](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/14?v=44) — then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew…
- [Ezekiel 28:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/28?v=24) — “‘“There will no longer be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them…