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Lexicon :: Strong's H4784 - mārâ

Aa
מָרָה
Transliteration
mārâ
Pronunciation
maw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1242

Strong’s Definitions

מָרָה mârâh, maw-raw'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke):—bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's H4784 in the following manner: rebel (19x), rebellious (9x), provoke (7x), disobedient (2x), against (1x), bitter (1x), changed (1x), disobeyed (1x), grievously (1x), provocation (1x), rebels (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's H4784 in the following manner: rebel (19x), rebellious (9x), provoke (7x), disobedient (2x), against (1x), bitter (1x), changed (1x), disobeyed (1x), grievously (1x), provocation (1x), rebels (1x).

  1. to be contentious, be rebellious, be refractory, be disobedient towards, be rebellious against

    1. (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious

      1. towards father

      2. towards God

    2. (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָרָה mârâh, maw-raw'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke):—bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
STRONGS H4784: Abbreviations
† מָרָה verb be contentious, refractory, rebellious (Late Hebrew id., Hiph.; Arabic bdb059801 III. dispute with; Syriac bdb059802 Pa. contend with); —
Qal. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מָרָה 1 Kings 13:26; feminine מָֽרְתָה Hosea 14:1 [Hosea 13:16]; מָרָ֑תָה Jeremiah 4:17; 2nd person masculine singular מָרִיתָ 1 Kings 13:21 + 11 times perfect; Infinitive absolute מָרוֺ Lamentations 1:20; Participle מֹרֶה 2 Kings 14:26 (but read מר, √ מרר, KmpKau כִּי מַר הוּא); מוֺרֶה Deuteronomy 21:18 + 3 times;
[H4754 feminine מֹרְאָה Zephaniah 3:1 (read מֹרָה; metaplastic form according to Ges§ 75 R. 22)];
plural מֹרִים Numbers 20:10; — be disobedient, rebellious:
1. בֵּן סוֺרֵר וּמֹרֶה Deuteronomy 21:18, 20 stubborn and rebellious son (towards father).
2. elsewhere towards God: דֹּר סוֺרֵר וּמֹרֶה Psalm 78:8; לֵב סורר ומ׳ Jeremiah 5:23; מוֺרְאָה ונגאלה הָעִיר [H4754 Zephaniah 3:1]; הַמֹּרִים Numbers 20:10 ye rebels (P); absolute Isaiah 50:5; Isaiah 63:10; Lamentations 1:20 (twice in verse); || מאן Isaiah 1:20; פשׁע Lamentations 3:42; with בְּ person Hosea 14:1 [Hosea 13:16]; Psalm 5:11 [Psalm 5:10], elsewhere accusative of person Jeremiah 4:17; י׳'s words Psalm 105:28; מרה (את) פי Numbers 20:24; Numbers 27:14 (P), 1 Samuel 12:15; 1 Kings 13:21, 26 (D2) Lamentations 1:18. — In H7378 Hosea 4:4 read perhaps מָרוּ בִי have rebelled against me (for MT כִּמְרִיבֵי), so RSProph. iv. n. 8 Che (for other views see H7378 ריב).
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine plural הִמְרוּ Psalm 106:33; Psalm 107:11; Imperfect יַמְרֶה Joshua 1:18; feminine וַתֶּ֫מֶר Ezekiel 5:6; 2nd person masculine singular תַּמֵּר (as if √ מרר) H4843 Exodus 23:21, read תֶּ֫מֶר Di and others; 3rd person masculine plural יַמְרוּ Psalm 106:43 + 6 times; suffix יַמְרוּהוּ Psalm 78:40; 2nd person masculine plural תַּמְרוּ 1 Samuel 12:14 + 3 times; Infinitive construct לַמְרוֺת Isaiah 3:8; Psalm 78:17; suffix הַמְּרוֺתָם (Ges§ 20. 2 b) Job 17:2; Participle plural מַמְרִים Deuteronomy 9:7 + 2 times; — shew disobedience, rebelliousness, always toward God: absolute Nehemiah 9:26. (|| מרד), Psalm 106:7; Psalm 106:43; Job 17:2; with בְּ person H4843 Exodus 23:21; Ezekiel 20:8, 13, 21; עִם Deuteronomy 9:7, 24; Deuteronomy 31:27; elsewhere accusative of God or his commands: Isaiah 3:8; Ezekiel 5:6; Psalm 78:17; Psalm 78:40; Psalm 78:56; Psalm 107:11; המרה את פי Deuteronomy 1:26, 43; Deuteronomy 9:23; Joshua 1:18; 1 Samuel 12:14 (D2), אתרֿוחוֺ Psalm 106:33 (compare Eph 4:30); perhaps Psalm 139:20 (see H559 אָמַר 1).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

20:10; 20:10; 20:24; 27:14

Deuteronomy

1:26; 1:43; 9:7; 9:7; 9:23; 9:24; 21:18; 21:18; 21:20; 31:27

Joshua

1:18; 1:18

1 Samuel

12:14; 12:14; 12:15

1 Kings

13:21; 13:21; 13:26; 13:26

2 Kings

14:26

Nehemiah

9:26

Job

17:2; 17:2

Psalms

5:10; 78:8; 78:17; 78:17; 78:40; 78:40; 78:56; 105:28; 106:7; 106:33; 106:33; 106:43; 106:43; 107:11; 107:11

Isaiah

1:20; 3:8; 3:8; 50:5; 63:10

Jeremiah

4:17; 4:17; 5:23

Lamentations

1:18; 1:20; 1:20; 3:42

Ezekiel

5:6; 5:6; 20:8; 20:13; 20:21

Hosea

13:16; 13:16

Ephesians

4:30

H4784

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Strong's Number H4784 matches the Hebrew מָרָה (mārâ),
which occurs 45 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:24 - Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:26 - But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:43 - This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:24 - From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:27 - For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18 - Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give attention to all your words, will be put to death: only take heart and be strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:14 - If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:15 - But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26 - But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:2 - Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:10 - Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:40 - How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:56

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:56 - But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 - He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:33 - For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:43 - Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:11 - Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:8 - For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:5 - And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:10 - But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:17 - Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:23 - But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:42 - We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:16 - Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
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