מָרָה
mârâh · maw-raw'
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
- to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant)
- (figuratively) to rebel (or resist
- causatively, to provoke)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָרָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
45 occurrences · 45 OT · 0 NT · 39 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- ye have been rebellious3 · 9%
- and rebellious3 · 9%
- rebelled3 · 9%
- but rebelled2 · 6%
- but they rebelled2 · 6%
- now, ye rebels1 · 3%
- because ye rebelled against1 · 3%
- for ye rebelled1 · 3%
- you; then ye rebelled1 · 3%
- he be that doth rebel1 · 3%
- and not rebel1 · 3%
- but rebel1 · 3%
- thou hast disobeyed1 · 3%
- who was disobedient1 · 3%
- bitter1 · 3%
- nevertheless they were disobedient1 · 3%
- in their provocation1 · 3%
- for they have rebelled1 · 3%
- against him by provoking1 · 3%
- oft did they provoke1 · 3%
- and provoked1 · 3%
- and they rebelled1 · 3%
- but provoked1 · 3%
- because they provoked1 · 3%
- them; but they provoked1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.