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# מְרִיבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4808

**strife** — used 2 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

strife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4808/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרִיבָה²: n.f. strife, contention [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4808/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. strife, contention;—abs. מ׳, of quarrel between herdsmen Gn 13:8 (J); cstr. מְרִיבַת הָעִֽדָה, of people’s strife with Moses at Kadesh Nu 27:14 (P), cf. ii. מ׳ 2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 13:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.8/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַבְרָ֜ם אֶל־ל֗וֹט אַל־נָ֨א תְהִ֤י מְרִיבָה֙ בֵּינִ֣י וּבֵינֶ֔יךָ וּבֵ֥ין רֹעַ֖י וּבֵ֣ין רֹעֶ֑יךָ כִּֽי־אֲנָשִׁ֥ים אַחִ֖ים אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Abram to Lot not please let.it.be strife between me and between you and between herdsmen my and between herdsmen your (dm) \[are\].men brothers we

*JPS 1917:* And Abram said unto Lot: 'Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.

[Numbers 27:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.27.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.27.14/#tree)

כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ מְרִיתֶ֨ם פִּ֜י בְּמִדְבַּר־צִ֗ן בִּמְרִיבַת֙ הָֽעֵדָ֔ה לְהַקְדִּישֵׁ֥נִי בַמַּ֖יִם לְעֵינֵיהֶ֑ם הֵ֛ם מֵֽי־מְרִיבַ֥ת קָדֵ֖שׁ מִדְבַּר־צִֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* since you.rebelled.against mouth my in the.wilderness of.Zin in the.strife of the.congregation to treat me.as.holy at the waters to eyes their they \[were\].the.waters of.Meribath Kadesh the.wilderness of.Zin

*JPS 1917:* because ye rebelled against My commandment in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes.' — These are the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4808/): 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).