Strong's #4834: marats (pronounced maw-rats')

a primitive root; properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate:--embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mârats

1) to be or make sick

1a) (Niphal) to be grievous or painful

1b) (Hiphil) to make sick

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

1 Kings 2:8: "of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went"
Job 6:25: "How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"
Job 16:3: "have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Micah 2:10: "because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."