Word Study · Strong's H4808 · Hebrew

מְרִיבָה

meribah

mer-ee-baw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: mᵉrîybâh

“quarrel”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

quarrel

Rendered in the KJV as

provocation, strife.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

בִּמְרִיבַת֙1
מְרִיבָה֙1

How it is rendered · 2

in [the] strife of1
strife1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · feminine singular1
preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNcfsa · 1
HR/Ncfsc · 1

All 2, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis1 of 2 · 50%
Numbers1 of 2 · 50%

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Genesis1 occurrence

Genesis 13:8מְרִיבָה֙merivahnoun · feminine singularSo Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.here: strife

Numbers1 occurrence

Numbers 27:14בִּמְרִיבַת֙bimrivatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.here: in [the] strife of

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled מְרִיבָה

H4809 · 11×

מְרִיבָה

Meribah

“Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert”

Read Genesis 13:8 in context →