cruelty
11 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those that were with him to make them ready.
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
This is the anointed, which the Highest hath kept for them and for their wickedness unto the end: he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them with their cruelty.
“You have governed badly, and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty. You have labored to deprive me, your benefactor, at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.
They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom.
OT Pseudepigrapha
This spirit goeth always with lying at the right hand of Satan, that with cruelty and lying his works may be wrought.
And at the point of death he said, 'We, O most abominable tyrant, suffer thus for our upbringing and our virtue that are of God; but thou for thy impiety and thy cruelty shall endure torments without end.'