Colossians 3:19

New Testament • 5 words with Strong's data

"Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."

Word-by-Word Analysis

בַּעַל

baʻal

H1167

a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)

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אָהַב

ʼâhab

H157

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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your

אִשָּׁה

ʼishshâh

H802

a woman

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and be not

מַר

mar

H4751

bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly

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קִרְאָה

qirʼâh

H7125

an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

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them

Key Terms in This Verse

Husbands H1167

בַּעַל baʻal

a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)

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bitter H4751

מַר mar

bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly

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wives H802

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh

a woman

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love H157

אָהַב ʼâhab

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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against H7125

קִרְאָה qirʼâh

an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

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Cross References

1 Peter 3:7 cross-reference

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder...

Colossians 3:21 cross-reference

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Ephesians 5:25 cross-reference

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Ephesians 4:31 cross-reference

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians 5:33 cross-reference

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 cross-reference

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in th...

James 3:14 cross-reference

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Genesis 24:67 cross-reference

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Luke 14:26 cross-reference

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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