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Lexicon :: Strong's H4784 - mārâ

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מָרָה
Transliteration
mārâ
Pronunciation
maw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1242

Strong’s Definitions

מָרָה mârâh, maw-raw'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke):—bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's H4784 in the following manner: rebel (19x), rebellious (9x), provoke (7x), disobedient (2x), against (1x), bitter (1x), changed (1x), disobeyed (1x), grievously (1x), provocation (1x), rebels (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's H4784 in the following manner: rebel (19x), rebellious (9x), provoke (7x), disobedient (2x), against (1x), bitter (1x), changed (1x), disobeyed (1x), grievously (1x), provocation (1x), rebels (1x).
  1. to be contentious, be rebellious, be refractory, be disobedient towards, be rebellious against

    1. (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious

      1. towards father

      2. towards God

    2. (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָרָה mârâh, maw-raw'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke):—bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
STRONGS H4784: Abbreviations
מָרָה verb be contentious, refractory, rebellious (Late Hebrew id., Hiph.; Arabic bdb059801 III. dispute with; Syriac bdb059802 Pa. contend with); —
Qal. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מָרָה 1 Kings 13:26; feminine מָֽרְתָה Hosea 14:1 [Hosea 13:16]; מָרָ֑תָה Jeremiah 4:17; 2nd person masculine singular מָרִיתָ 1 Kings 13:21 + 11 times perfect; Infinitive absolute מָרוֺ Lamentations 1:20; Participle מֹרֶה 2 Kings 14:26 (but read מר, √ מרר, KmpKau כִּי מַר הוּא); מוֺרֶה Deuteronomy 21:18 + 3 times;
[H4754 feminine מֹרְאָה Zephaniah 3:1 (read מֹרָה; metaplastic form according to Ges§ 75 R. 22)];
plural מֹרִים Numbers 20:10; — be disobedient, rebellious:
1. בֵּן סוֺרֵר וּמֹרֶה Deuteronomy 21:18, 20 stubborn and rebellious son (towards father).
2. elsewhere towards God: דֹּר סוֺרֵר וּמֹרֶה Psalm 78:8; לֵב סורר ומ׳ Jeremiah 5:23; מוֺרְאָה ונגאלה הָעִיר [H4754 Zephaniah 3:1]; הַמֹּרִים Numbers 20:10 ye rebels (P); absolute Isaiah 50:5; Isaiah 63:10; Lamentations 1:20 (twice in verse); || מאן Isaiah 1:20; פשׁע Lamentations 3:42; with בְּ person Hosea 14:1 [Hosea 13:16]; Psalm 5:11 [Psalm 5:10], elsewhere accusative of person Jeremiah 4:17; י׳'s words Psalm 105:28; מרה (את) פי Numbers 20:24; Numbers 27:14 (P), 1 Samuel 12:15; 1 Kings 13:21, 26 (D2) Lamentations 1:18. — In H7378 Hosea 4:4 read perhaps מָרוּ בִי have rebelled against me (for MT כִּמְרִיבֵי), so RSProph. iv. n. 8 Che (for other views see H7378 ריב).
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine plural הִמְרוּ Psalm 106:33; Psalm 107:11; Imperfect יַמְרֶה Joshua 1:18; feminine וַתֶּ֫מֶר Ezekiel 5:6; 2nd person masculine singular תַּמֵּר (as if √ מרר) H4843 Exodus 23:21, read תֶּ֫מֶר Di and others; 3rd person masculine plural יַמְרוּ Psalm 106:43 + 6 times; suffix יַמְרוּהוּ Psalm 78:40; 2nd person masculine plural תַּמְרוּ 1 Samuel 12:14 + 3 times; Infinitive construct לַמְרוֺת Isaiah 3:8; Psalm 78:17; suffix הַמְּרוֺתָם (Ges§ 20. 2 b) Job 17:2; Participle plural מַמְרִים Deuteronomy 9:7 + 2 times; — shew disobedience, rebelliousness, always toward God: absolute Nehemiah 9:26. (|| מרד), Psalm 106:7; Psalm 106:43; Job 17:2; with בְּ person H4843 Exodus 23:21; Ezekiel 20:8, 13, 21; עִם Deuteronomy 9:7, 24; Deuteronomy 31:27; elsewhere accusative of God or his commands: Isaiah 3:8; Ezekiel 5:6; Psalm 78:17; Psalm 78:40; Psalm 78:56; Psalm 107:11; המרה את פי Deuteronomy 1:26, 43; Deuteronomy 9:23; Joshua 1:18; 1 Samuel 12:14 (D2), אתרֿוחוֺ Psalm 106:33 (compare Eph 4:30); perhaps Psalm 139:20 (see H559 אָמַר 1).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

20:10; 20:10; 20:24; 27:14

Deuteronomy

1:26; 1:43; 9:7; 9:7; 9:23; 9:24; 21:18; 21:18; 21:20; 31:27

Joshua

1:18; 1:18

1 Samuel

12:14; 12:14; 12:15

1 Kings

13:21; 13:21; 13:26; 13:26

2 Kings

14:26

Nehemiah

9:26

Job

17:2; 17:2

Psalms

5:10; 78:8; 78:17; 78:17; 78:40; 78:40; 78:56; 105:28; 106:7; 106:33; 106:33; 106:43; 106:43; 107:11; 107:11

Isaiah

1:20; 3:8; 3:8; 50:5; 63:10

Jeremiah

4:17; 4:17; 5:23

Lamentations

1:18; 1:20; 1:20; 3:42

Ezekiel

5:6; 5:6; 20:8; 20:13; 20:21

Hosea

13:16; 13:16

Ephesians

4:30

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4784 matches the Hebrew מָרָה (mārâ),
which occurs 45 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels; must we bring you water out of this rock?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:24 - “Aaron will be gathered to his people [in death]; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you [both] rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - because in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to treat me as holy [by following My instruction] before their eyes at the water.” (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:26 -

“Yet you were not willing to go up [to take possession of it], but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:43 - “So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the LORD, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - “Remember [with remorse] and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived in this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - “And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God, and you did not believe and rely on Him, nor did you obey His voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:24 - “You have been rebellious against the LORD from the [first] day that I knew you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 -

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - “They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:27 - “For I know your rebellion and contention and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD; how much more, then, after my death?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18 - “Any man who rebels against your [fn]command and does not obey everything that you command him, shall be put to death; only be strong and courageous.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:14 - “If you will fear the LORD [with awe and profound reverence] and serve Him and listen to His voice and not rebel against His commandment, then both you and your king will follow the LORD your God [and it will be well].
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:15 - “But if you do not listen to the LORDS voice, but rebel against His [fn]command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you [to punish you], as it was against your fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - Further, David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all of them were embittered, each man for his sons and daughters. But David felt strengthened and encouraged in the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - And he cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 -

When the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard about it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke to him.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For the LORD saw the affliction (suffering) of Israel as very bitter; there was no one left, bond or free, nor any helper for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26 -

“Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You,

And cast Your law behind their backs

And killed Your prophets who warned them

To return to You;

And they committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:2 -

“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,

And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:10 -

Hold them guilty, O God;

Let them fall by their own designs and councils!

Cast them out because of the abundance of their transgressions,

For they are mutinous and have rebelled against You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 -

And not be like their fathers—

A stubborn and rebellious generation,

A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,

And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 -

Yet they still continued to sin against Him

By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:40 -

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness

And grieved Him in the desert!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:56 -

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God

And did not keep His testimonies (laws).

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 -

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;

And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 -

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;

They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,

But they were rebellious at the sea, at the [fn]Red Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:33 -

Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,

Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:43 -

Many times He rescued them;

But they were rebellious in their counsel,

And sank down in their wickedness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:11 -

Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God

And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 -

But if you refuse and rebel,

You shall be devoured by the sword.”

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:8 -

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,

Because their words and their actions are against the LORD,

To rebel against His glorious presence and defiantly provoke Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:5 -

The Lord GOD has opened My ear,

And I have not been rebellious

Nor have I turned back.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:10 -

But they rebelled

And grieved His Holy Spirit;

Therefore He changed into their enemy,

And He fought against them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:17 -

‘Like watchmen of a field they are against her on all sides,

Because she has rebelled against Me,’ says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:23 -

‘But this people has a stubborn heart and a rebellious will [that draws them away from Me];

They have turned away and have gone [into idolatry].

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 -

“The LORD is righteous and just;

For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word).

Hear now, all you peoples,

And look at my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 -

“See, O LORD, how distressed I am!

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is overturned within me and cannot rest,

For I have been very rebellious.

In the street the sword kills and bereaves;

In the house there is [famine, disease and] death!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:42 -

We have transgressed and rebelled,

You have not pardoned.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - ‘And she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the [pagan] nations and against My statutes more than the countries that are around her; for Israel has rejected My ordinances and has not walked in My statutes.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - “But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away the detestable things on which they feasted their eyes, nor did they [fn]give up the idols of Egypt.

“Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them and finish My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they despised and rejected My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “Yet the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them and finish My anger against them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:16 -

Samaria will be found guilty [and become desolate],

Because she rebelled against her God;

They will fall by the sword,

Their infants will be dashed in pieces,

And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

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