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# מְרִיבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4809

**Meribah** — used 11 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

Meribah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4809/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרִיבָה³: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4809/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (place of strife);— at Rephidim, מַסָּה וּמ׳ Ex 17:7 (J), Λοιδόρησις. at Kadesh, especially in מֵי מְרִיבָה water of M. (𝔊 ὕδωρ ἀντιλογίας) Dt 33:8 Nu 20:13 (P) ψ 81:8; 106:32, also (𝔊 ὕδωρ τῆς λοιδορίας, 𝔊L as above) Nu 20:24 (P); מ׳ cstr. in מֵי מְרִיבַת קָדֵשׁ (𝔊 ὕδωρ ἀντιλογίας \[ἐν\] Καδης) Nu 27:14 Dt 32:51 (both P), and (𝔊 ὕδωρ βαριμωθ Καδης) Ez 48:28; so מֵי מְרִיבוֹת ק׳ 47:19 (𝔊 ὕδωρ Μαριμωθ Καδης); Dt 33:2 v. קֹדֶשׁ ad fin.; מְרִיבָה alone, only ψ 95:8 (παραπικρασμός; ‖ יוֹם מַסָּה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Meribah (6); of Meribath (3); Meribah (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 95:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.8/#tree)

אַל־תַּקְשׁ֣וּ לְ֭בַבְכֶם כִּמְרִיבָ֑ה כְּי֥וֹם מַ֝סָּ֗ה בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* do.not harden heart your like Meribah like the.day of.Massah in the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* 'Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

[Psalms 106:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.32/#tree)

וַ֭יַּקְצִיפוּ עַל־מֵ֥י מְרִיבָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥רַע לְ֝מֹשֶׁ֗ה בַּעֲבוּרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.provoked.\[him\].to.anger at the.waters of.Meribah and it.was.bad for Moses because of them

*JPS 1917:* They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4809.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4809/): 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).