Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4785
מָרָה
Marahmaw-raw'
Marah
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mârâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4785is 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) · H4785
Marah, a place in the Desert
The King James renders it: Marah.
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
Marah is rendered "Marah". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
Exodus 15:23מָרָ֔תָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from Marah2
- at Marah1
- Marah1
- Marah towards1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָרָה | marah | to rebel | Uses45 |
| מָרָק | maraq | broth | Uses3 |
| מָרָא | mara | to flap | Uses2 |
| מָרָד | marad | rebellious | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, 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
- מִמָּרָ֔ה2
- בְּמָרָֽה׃1
- מָרָֽה׃1
- מָרָ֔תָה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
Exodus
three uses
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
- מָרָ֔תָהmaratahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Marah towards
- מִמָּרָ֔הmimarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Marah
- מָרָֽה׃marahproper noun (a name)tagged: Marah
Numbers
two uses
They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
- בְּמָרָֽה׃bemarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Marah
They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
- מִמָּרָ֔הmimarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Marah
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.