מָרָה
Mârâh · H4785 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences
Place
- Marahfirst named in Exodus 15:233 verses
Meanings
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Marah
Location in the wilderness of Etham where the Israelites encamped shortly after crossing the Sea of Reeds on their way from Egypt to Canaan; here bitter water was made drinkable
ExamplesExodus 15:23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter; for that reason it was named Marah.
Numbers 33:8 They journeyed from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea to the wilderness; and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
Numbers 33:9 They journeyed from Marah and came to Elim; and in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 4
- בin/on/with 2
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- The word names Marah, the place where Israel found bitter water shortly after crossing the Red Sea.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4785. Marah מָרָה proper name, feminine of bitter spring in Sinaitic peninsula Exo 15:23…
מָרָה proper name, feminine of bitter spring in Sinaitic peninsula Exo 15:23 (twice in verse) (J), Num 33:8-9, (P), + ה locative מָרָ֑תָה Exo 15:23 (J); probably modern `Ain Hawwâraiun. (compare RobBR i. 67) PalmerDesert i. 40 EbGS 125 f.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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