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Strong's #4784: marah (pronounced 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).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mârâh

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

1a) (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious

1a1) towards father

1a2) towards God

1b) (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 45 times:

Numbers 20:10: "before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch"
Numbers 20:24: "unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water"
Numbers 27:14: "For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify"
Deuteronomy 1:26: "Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:"
Deuteronomy 1:43: "unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up"
Deuteronomy 9:7: "unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD."
Deuteronomy 9:23: "the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD"
Deuteronomy 9:24: "Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew"
Deuteronomy 21:18: "a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice"
Deuteronomy 21:20: "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,"
Deuteronomy 31:27: "with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more"
Joshua 1:18: "Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto"
1 Samuel 12:14: "him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both"
1 Samuel 12:15: "obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand"
1 Kings 13:21: "saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not"
1 Kings 13:26: "is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD"
2 Kings 14:26: "the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left,"
Nehemiah 9:26: " Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew"
Job 17:2: "with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?"
Psalms 5:10: "cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled"
Psalms 78:8: "be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright,"
Psalms 78:17: "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness."
Psalms 78:40: "How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!"
Psalms 78:56: "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:"
Psalms 105:28: "He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word."
Psalms 106:7: "the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea."
Psalms 106:33: "Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips."
Psalms 106:43: "times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity."
Psalms 107:11: "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:"
Isaiah 1:20: "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD"
Isaiah 3:8: "and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory."
Isaiah 50:5: "mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back."
Isaiah 63:10: "But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy,"
Jeremiah 4:17: "they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 5:23: "people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone."
Lamentations 1:18: "The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all"
Lamentations 1:20: "is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword"
Lamentations 1:20: "is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword"
Lamentations 3:42: "We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned."
Ezekiel 5:6: " And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than"
Ezekiel 20:8: " But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away"
Ezekiel 20:13: "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised"
Ezekiel 20:21: "Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments"
Hosea 13:16: "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants"
Zephaniah 3:1: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!"









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