Hebrew verb · H3992
מָאַר
maarmaw-ar'
to malign
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâʼar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3992is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3992
to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter, i.e. be painful
The King James renders it: fretting, picking.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maar is rendered "to malign". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:51On the seventh day the priest shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
On the seventh day the priest shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.
Leviticus 13:51מַמְאֶ֛רֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- malignant3
- pricks1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָאַס | maas | to reject | Uses76 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַמְאִיר֙1
- מַמְאֶ֛רֶת1
- מַמְאֶ֙רֶת֙1
- מַמְאֶ֥רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singular3HVhrfsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
Leviticus
three uses
On the seventh day the priest shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.
- מַמְאֶ֛רֶתmameretverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: malignant
He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.
- מַמְאֶ֙רֶת֙mameretverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: malignant
the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
- מַמְאֶ֥רֶתmameretverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: malignant
Ezekiel
one use
For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
- מַמְאִיר֙mamirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: pricks
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.