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HebrewH4809Noun

מְרִיבָה

me.ri.vah

10Occurrences
H4809Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert

the same as H4808 (מְרִיבָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Meribah = "strife" or "contention" 1) a fountain at Rephidim, in the desert of Sin; so called because the Israelites murmured against ) the name of the water supply at Kadesh on the southern border of the promised land; the people also murmured here against God

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מְרִיבָה appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
3
Deuteronomy
2
Ezk
2
Psalms
2
Exodus
1

Key Passages

Deuteronomy 32:51BSB

For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

Exodus 17:7BSB

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

Ezk 48:28BSB

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Numbers 20:24BSB

“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.

Psalms 106:32BSB

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD,and trouble came to Moses because of them.

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