מְרָרִי
Mᵉrârîy · mer-aw-ree'
Merari, an Israelite
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4843 (מָרַר); bitter;
Merari, an Israelite
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Merari. See also H4848 (מְרָרִי).
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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › the head, the highest › the hand that works
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מְרָרִי 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
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of merari33 · 85%
- and merari6 · 15%
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.