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# מֵרָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4764

**Merab** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Merab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4764/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵרַב: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4764/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. elder daughter of Saul 1 S 14:49, promised to David 18:17, but given to Adriel v 19 (read also 2 S 21:8 for מִיכַל 𝔊L 𝔖 Th Dr Klo Kit Bu Löhr HPS). 𝔊 Μεροβ.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Merab (2); \[was\] Merab (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 18:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.18.19/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י בְּעֵ֥ת תֵּ֛ת אֶת־מֵרַ֥ב בַּת־שָׁא֖וּל לְדָוִ֑ד וְהִ֧יא נִתְּנָ֛ה לְעַדְרִיאֵ֥ל הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖י לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was at the.time gave (et) Merab the.daughter of.Saul to David and she she.was.given to Adriel the Meholathite to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

[1 Samuel 14:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.49/#tree)

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י שָׁא֔וּל יוֹנָתָ֥ן וְיִשְׁוִ֖י וּמַלְכִּי־שׁ֑וּעַמַלְכִּי־שׁ֑וּעַ וְשֵׁם֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י בְנֹתָ֔יו שֵׁ֤ם הַבְּכִירָה֙ מֵרַ֔ב וְשֵׁ֥ם הַקְּטַנָּ֖ה מִיכַֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.sons of.Saul Jonathan and Ishvi and Malki-Shua Malki-Shua and the.name of.the.two daughters his the.name of the.firstborn \[was\].Merab and the.name of the.young.\[one\] \[was\].Michal

*JPS 1917:* Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the first-born Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4764.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4764/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).