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# מְרָרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4847

**Merari. See also** — used 40 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

Merari. See also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4847/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרָרִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4847/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a son of Levi, and head of a chief Levit. family: 𝔊 Μεραρ(ε)ι, Μαραρει;—Gn 46:11; Ex 6:16, 19; Nu 3:17, 20, 33(×2), 35, 36; 4:29, 33, 42, 45; 7:8; 10:17; 26:57; Jos 21:7, 34, 38 (all P), 1 Ch 5:27; 6:1, 4, 14, 29, 32, 48, 62; 9:14; 15:6, 17; 23:6, 21; 24:26, 27; 26:10, 19; 2 Ch 29:12; 34:12; Ezr 8:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 37 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 (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Merari (29); Merari (8); of \[the\] Merarite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.27/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י לֵוִ֑י גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן קְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Levi \[were\].Gershon Kohath and Merari

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

[1 Chronicles 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.1/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י לֵוִ֑י גֵּרְשֹׁ֕ם קְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Levi \[were\].Gershom Kohath and Merari

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4847.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4847/): 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).