Strong's #4764: Merab (pronounced may-rawb')

from 7231; increase; Merab, a daughter of Saul:--Merab.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mêrâb

Merab = "increase"

1) the eldest daughter of king Saul; promised to David but given instead to Adriel the Meholathite; mother of 5 children

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: from H7231

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

1 Samuel 14:49: "daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:"
1 Samuel 18:17: "Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be"
1 Samuel 18:19: "But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David,"