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
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
מַר
mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Key Terms in This Verse
בַּעַל baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
Study H1167 →מַר mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Study H4751 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
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...
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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...
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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.
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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