מָרָה
ma.rah
“to rebel”
Definition
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
a primitive root;
- to be contentious, be rebellious, be refractory, be disobedient towards, be rebellious against 1a) (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious 1a1) towards father 1a2) towards b) (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey
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Occurrences
מָרָה appears 42 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
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Surely mockers surround me,and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
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