 that the Christian, the believer, has quenched and grieved the Holy Spirit. The word bitterness is a Greek word pronounced pikria. It's spelled P-I-K-R-I-A. That's the original manuscript, the original writing, not the English, as it was written in the original Greek New Testament, the Koine Greek language. The word bitterness is pikria, and it is a noun, and it's a metaphor for extreme hatred.