Word

מְרָרִי

Mᵉrârîy · H4847 · Hebrew · proper noun · 40 occurrences

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Person

Merarifirst named in Genesis 46:1138 verses

Meanings

Merari

Man; one of the three sons of Levi; founder of a Levite clan

Examples
Genesis 46:11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Exodus 6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was 137 years.
Exodus 6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Merarite

Descendant of Merari; tribe of Levi

Examples
Numbers 26:57 These are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מִשְׁפָּחָהclan, family 3

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

32 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 29
מִשְׁפָּחָהclan, family 3

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 2 entries

Names of People003001007: מְרָרִי names Merari, a son of Levi, illustrated at Genesis 46:11 ("the sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari") and Exodus 6:16.
Names of Groups003001006: מְרָרִי also names the Merarites, the clan descended from Merari, illustrated throughout the Levitical genealogies and service lists (e.g. Exodus 6:19).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4847. Merari I. מְרָרִי proper name, masculine a son of Levi, and head of a chief…

H4847. Merari
I. מְרָרִי proper name, masculine a son of Levi, and head of a chief Levitical family: ᵐ5 Μεραρ(ε)Ι, Μαραρει; — Gen 46:11; Exo 6:16, Exo 6:19; Num 3:17, Num 3:20, Num 3:33 (twice in verse); Num 3:35-36, Num 4:29, Num 4:33, Num 4:42, Num 4:45; Num 7:8; Num 10:17; Num 26:57; Jos 21:7; Jos 21:34; Jos 21:38 (all P), 1 Chronicles 5:27; 1Ch 6:1; 1Ch 6:4; 1Ch 6:14; 1Ch 6:29; 1Ch 6:32; 1Ch 6:48; 1Ch 6:62; 1Ch 9:14; 1Ch 15:6, 1Ch 15:17; 1Ch 23:6, 1Ch 23:21; 1Ch 24:26-27, 1Ch 26:10, 1Ch 26:19; 2Ch 29:12; 2Ch 34:12; Ezr 8:19.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of Groups1 occurrence Names of People39 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