akh.zar describes harsh, unmerciful conduct or a threatening quality in the supplied biblical contexts.

The attested adjective characterizes harshness or lack of mercy: it is applied to hostile treatment in Job 30:21 and to the daughter of the people in Lamentations 4:3, while Deuteronomy 32:33 places it with cobra poison. Job 41:2 contains the same masculine singular absolute form, though the paraphrase does not make its specific contribution identifiable.

1. Harsh or unmerciful characterization · dominant

   The masculine singular absolute form marks a harsh quality in several settings. In Job 30:21 the APB renders the address, “You turn to be cruel to me,” and in Lamentations 4:3 it says that the daughter of the people “has become cruel”; Deuteronomy 32:33 places the same form in the phrase rendered “the cruel poison of cobras.” Job 41:2 has the same form, but its APB wording does not isolate a corresponding English expression.

   Deuteronomy 32:33Job 30:21Job 41:2Lamentations 4:3

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB explicitly uses “cruel” in Deuteronomy 32:33, Job 30:21, and Lamentations 4:3. In Job 41:2, the paraphrase does not provide an identifiable rendering for the term; it is not word-aligned.