Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4808
מְרִיבָה
meribahmer-ee-baw'
provocation
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉrîybâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4808is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4808
quarrel
The King James renders it: provocation, strife.
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
meribah is rendered "provocation". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:8So 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.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
So 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.
Genesis 13:8מְרִיבָה֙
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
- in strife of1
- strife1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְרִי | meri | Egypt | Uses23 |
| מְרִיא | meri | fatling | Uses8 |
| מְרִירִי | meriri | bitter | Uses1 |
| מְרִירוּת | meriruth | bitterness | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- בִּמְרִיבַת֙1
- מְרִיבָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
Genesis
one use
So 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.
- מְרִיבָה֙merivahnoun · feminine singulartagged: strife
Numbers
one use
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.
- בִּמְרִיבַת֙bimrivatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in strife of
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.