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HebrewH4785Noun

מָרָה

ma.rah

3Occurrences
H4785Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Marah, a place in the Desert

the same as H4751 (מַר) feminine; bitter;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Marah = "bitter" the spring with bitter water which was 3 days travel from the crossing place of the Red Sea in the peninsula of Sinai

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מָרָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
2
Exodus
1

Key Passages

Exodus 15:23BSB

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

Numbers 33:8BSB

They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

Numbers 33:9BSB

They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.