מָרָא
mârâʼ · H4754 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to be rebellious
Action by which humans reject the authority of a ruler to which they had formerly been subjected
ExamplesZephaniah 3:1 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city!
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Action by which a bird moves its wings, in order to gain speed (to flap (one's wings))
ExamplesJob 39:18 “When she rushes away on high, She laughs at the horse and his rider.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ מָרוֹםheight, on high 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- סָרַר çârar · H5637 · to be rebellious, to be stubborn
- סָרַר denotes stubborn rebellion and self-will, semantically overlapping with מָרָא's sense of rebellious self-lifting and defiance.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unwilling002001002031
- The word denotes rebelliousness or refusal, as Zephaniah's woe against the city that is rebellious and defiled, resisting correction.
- Move002002001012
- The word can denote a bird's rushing or soaring movement, as the ostrich that rushes away on high, flapping her wings.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4754. mara I. [מָרָא] verb only Hiph`il Imperfect3feminine singular: meaning dubious,…
I. [מָרָא] verb only
Hiph`il Imperfect3feminine singular: meaning dubious, perhaps beat the air, or flap the wings, compare Di De (and Wetzst in De), Bu Du (compare Arabic whip, urge on a horse ?); — וּלְדֹבְבוֺ׃ לַסּוּם תִּשְׂחָק תַּמְרִ֑יא Job 39:18 she (the ostrich) flaps away, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
II. מרא (√ of following, be fat; compare Assyrian marû III. causative, adjective marû, well-fed, fat; Arabic be digestible, agree with (of food)).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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