Word

מִרְיָם

Miryâm · H4813 · Hebrew · proper noun · 15 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Miriamsister of Moses12 verses
Miriamdaughter of Mered1 verse

Meanings

Miriam

Miriam, elder sister of Moses and Aaron, of the tribe of Levi

Examples
Exodus 15:20 Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
Exodus 15:21 And Miriam answered them, “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”
Numbers 12:1 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman);
Miriam

Woman; daughter of Mered; tribe of Judah

Examples
1 Chronicles 4:17 The sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And Mered’s wife conceived and gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אָחוֹתsister 2
נְבִיאָהprophetess 1

What it doesIt is the subject

7 occurrences in 7 groups

דָבַרto speak, to say 1
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
מוּתto die 1
סָגַרto shut 1
עָנָהto afflict, to humble 1
אָסַףto gather, to assemble 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

הָרָהto conceive 1
יָלַדto bear 1
קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 3
לto/for 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 People003001007: The word is the proper name Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron who led the women in song after crossing the Red Sea.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4813. Miryam מִרְיָם proper name, feminine and masculine 1. feminine sister of Aaron Exo…

H4813. Miryam
מִרְיָם proper name, feminine and masculine
1. feminine sister of Aaron Exo 15:20 (E), and of Moses and Aaron Num 26:59 (P), 1 Chronicles 5:29; named also Exo 15:21 (E), Num 12:1, Num 12:4, Num 12:5, Num 12:10 (twice in verse); Num 12:15 (twice in verse); Num 20:1 (all J E), Deu 24:9; Mic 6:4. ᵐ5 Μαριαμ.
2. masculine (probably) a Judahite 1Ch 4:17. ᵐ5 τὸν Μαιων, ᵐ5L Μωεωρ.
מְרִירִי מְרִירוּת, see מרר.
מֹ֫רֶךְ see רכך. מֶרְכָּבָה מֶרְכָּב, see רכב.
[מַרְכֹּ֫לֶת see רכל. I.מִרְמָה see רמה.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People15 occurrences

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