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# מָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4785

**Marah** — used 5 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

Marah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4785/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרָה³: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4785/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. of bitter spring in Sinaitic penins. Ex 15:23(×2) (J), Nu 33:8, 9 (P), + הָ loc. מָרָ֑תָה Ex 15:23 (J); prob. mod. ʿAin Hawwâratun (Cf. RobBR i. 67 PalmerDesert i. 40 EbGS 125 f.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Marah (4); to (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 15:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.23/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ מָרָ֔תָה וְלֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לִשְׁתֹּ֥ת מַ֙יִם֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה כִּ֥י מָרִ֖ים הֵ֑ם עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמָ֖הּ מָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.came to Marah and not they.were.able to drink waters from Marah (dm) \[were\].bitter they therefore someone.called name its Marah

*JPS 1917:* And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

[Numbers 33:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.9/#tree)

וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ אֵילִ֑מָה וּ֠בְאֵילִם שְׁתֵּ֣ים עֶשְׂרֵ֞ה עֵינֹ֥ת מַ֛יִם וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים תְּמָרִ֖ים וַיַּחֲנוּ־שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Marah and they.came to Elim and.\[were\] at Elim two.plus ten springs of.water and seventy palm.trees and they.encamped there

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they pitched there.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4785.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4785/): 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).