Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4809
מְרִיבָה
Meribahmer-ee-baw'
Meribah
11 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 H4809is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4809
Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert
The King James renders it: Meribah.
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 "Meribah". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Exodus 17:7וּמְרִיבָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eleven uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Meribah6
- Meribath3
- and Meribah1
- like Meribah1
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 |
| מְרִיבָה | meribah | provocation | Uses2 |
| 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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- מְרִיבָֽה׃2
- מְרִיבַ֥ת2
- וּמְרִיבָ֑ה1
- כִּמְרִיבָ֑ה1
- מְרִיבָ֣ה1
- מְרִיבָ֑ה1
- מְרִיבָ֔ה1
- מְרִיב֣וֹת1
- מְרִיבַ֣ת1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)6HNpl
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
Exodus
one use
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- וּמְרִיבָ֑הumerivahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Meribah
Numbers
three uses
These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.
- מְרִיבָ֔הmerivahproper noun (a name)tagged: Meribah
“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
- מְרִיבָֽה׃merivahproper noun (a name)tagged: Meribah
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.
- מְרִיבַ֥תmerivatproper noun (a name)tagged: Meribath
Deuteronomy
two uses
For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
- מְרִיבַ֥תmerivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Meribah
Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
- מְרִיבָֽה׃merivahproper noun (a name)tagged: Meribah
Psalms
three uses
You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
- מְרִיבָ֣הmerivahproper noun (a name)tagged: Meribah
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- כִּמְרִיבָ֑הkimrivahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Meribah
At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
- מְרִיבָ֑הmerivahproper noun (a name)tagged: Meribah
Ezekiel
two uses
On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
- מְרִיב֣וֹתmerivotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Meribath
The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
- מְרִיבַ֣תmerivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Meribath
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.