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# מְרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4805

**rebellion** — used 23 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

rebellion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4805/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרִי: n.m. rebellion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4805/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 17:11 rebellion;—מְרִי Is 30:9 + 10 times; מֶ֑רִי Nu 17:25 + 9 times; sf. מֶרְיְךָ Dt 31:27; מִרְיָם Ne 9:17;—rebellion Dt 31:27 1 S 15:23 Ne 9:17 Jb 23:2 עם מרי rebellious people Is 30:9; בית (ה)מרי rebellious house (referring to Israel) Ez 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26, 27; 12:2(×2), 3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3, בית omitted (restored by Co) 2:7; 44:6; בְּנֵי מרי rebellious sons Nu 17:25 (P); with omission of בֵּן (or abstr. for concrete), אל תהי מֶ֑רִי be not a rebellious person Ez 2:8; אך מרי יבקּשׁ רע a rebellious man seeketh only evil Pr 17:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rebellion (11); of rebellion (9); \[are\] rebellious (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 17:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.11/#tree)

אַךְ־מְרִ֥י יְבַקֶּשׁ־רָ֑ע וּמַלְאָ֥ךְ אַ֝כְזָרִ֗י יְשֻׁלַּח־בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* only rebellion he.seeks an.evil.\[person\] and a.messenger cruel he.will.be.sent in him

*JPS 1917:* A rebellious man seeketh only evil; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

[Job 23:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.2/#tree)

גַּם־הַ֭יּוֹם מְרִ֣י שִׂחִ֑י יָ֝דִ֗י כָּבְדָ֥ה עַל־אַנְחָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* also this day the.rebellion my.complaint my hand my it.is.heavy on groaning my

*JPS 1917:* Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4805.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4805/): 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).