Ephesians 4:31
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
מַר
mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
κραυγή
kraugḗ
an outcry (in notification, tumult or grief)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
κακία
kakía
badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble
Key Terms in This Verse
κακία kakía
badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble
Study G2549 →מַר mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Study H4751 →דָבַר dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Study H1696 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →Cross References
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of...
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings...
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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