Strong's Hebrew · H4784
H4784 mârâh
מָרָה
maw-raw'
to rebel
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mârâh appears 45 times in Scripture, including Numbers 20:10 and Deuteronomy 1:26. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
In the King James Version
bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 45 times in Scripture
“Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?””
““Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.”
“So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.”
“But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.”
“Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.”
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,”
“You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.”
“and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.””
“And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.”
“for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
