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# מָרוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4796

**Maroth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Maroth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4796/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרוֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4796/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in (Shephelah of) Judah Mi 1:12; form attested by 𝔊 ὀδύνας (√ מרר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Micah 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.12/#tree)

כִּֽי־חָ֥לָֽה לְט֖וֹב יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת מָר֑וֹת כִּֽי־יָ֤רַד רָע֙ מֵאֵ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה לְשַׁ֖עַר יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) she.is.in.anguish for good the.inhabitant\[s\] of.Maroth (dm) it.has.come.down calamity from with Yahweh to the.gate of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good; because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4796.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4796/): 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).