25 At this the sons of Dan said to him: “Do not let your voice be heard close to us, for fear that men bitter of soul+ may assault YOU people, and you have to forfeit your own soul* and the soul of your household.”

2 And all men in distress+ and all men who had a creditor+ and all men bitter in soul+ began to collect together to him,+ and he came to be a chief* over them;+ and there came to be with him about four hundred men.

8 And Huʹshai went on to say: “You yourself well know your father and the men of his, that they are mighty,+ and they are bitter of soul,+ like a female bear that has lost her cubs in the field;+ and your father is a warrior,+ and he will not spend the night with the people.

27 When she came to the man of the [true] God at the mountain, she at once took hold of him by his feet.+ At this Ge·haʹzi came near to push her away,+ but the man of the [true] God+ said: “Let her alone,+ for her soul is bitter+ within her; and Jehovah himself has hidden+ it from me and not told me.”