9 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)

Wisdom of Solomon 5:22

And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them.

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 13:12

But cruelly he will lay up thy words, and will not spare to do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

2 Maccabees 15:2

Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honoured with holiness above all other days.

KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)

3 Maccabees 3:1

On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.

3 Maccabees 4:15

The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.

OT Pseudepigrapha

The First Book of Adam and Eve 25:5

"And thereby it will be made known that Thou art a merciful God, who willest not that one should perish; who lovest not that one should fall; and who dost not condemn any one cruelly, badly, and by whole destruction."

The Letter of Aristeas 6:28

But the birds which are forbidden you will find to be wild and carnivorous, tyrannising over the others by the strength which they possess, and cruelly obtaining food by preying of the tame birds enumerated above.

4 Maccabees 3:15

There they cast him on it, burning him with cruelly cunning devices, and they poured broth of evil odour into his nostrils.