HebrewH4808Noun (Feminine)
מְרִיבָה
me.ri.vah
“provocation”
2Occurrences
H4808Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
quarrel
from H7378 (רִיב);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
strife, contention
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Feminine)
Morphology Code
H:N-F
Full Description
H:N-F
Occurrences
מְרִיבָה appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Genesis
1
Numbers
1
Key Passages
Genesis 13:8BSB
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
Numbers 27:14BSB
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.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.