Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter, i.e. be painful
KJV Usage: fretting, picking
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָאַר (ma.ar) — to malign. (Hiphil) to pain, prick, irritate, be in pain
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָאַר] vb. (cf. Ar. Arabic excite hostility, irritate, Arabic break open, of a wound);— Hiph. prick, pain
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