bitterness
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MAROTH.An unknown town (Mic_1:12 only). There is a play upon the name, which means bitternesses.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town in the W. of Judah ("bitternesses"). Maroth waited carefully for good ("is grieved for her gods," Gesenius), but "evil (answering to bitterness, which Maroth means) came." Micah (Mic_1:12) plays upon the meaning of Maroth.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ma'roth. (bitterness). One of the towns of the western Shefelah, or lowland of Judah. Mic_1:12.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mā?roth, mā?rōth (מרות, mārōth; (κατοικοῦσα, katoikoúsa) (ὀδύνας, odúnas): An unknown town probably in the Philistine plain, named by Micah (Mic_1:12).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Maroth
(Heb. laeroth', מָרוֹת, bitter fountains; Sept. ὀδύναι, Vulg. a emaritudines), a place apparently not far from Jerusalem, on the route of the invading Assyrian army from Lachish (Mic_1:12; see Henderson, Comment. ad loc.). Schwarz (Palest. p. 107) conjectures it was identical with Maarath (Jos_15:59); but this name is very different in the Hebrew.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.