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To flap

מָרָאStrong’s H4754

mara (ma-ra)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mara is the Hebrew word usually translated “it flaps” and “filthy”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.”
Job 39:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Hiphil) to beat (the air), flap (the wings)meaning uncertain
  2. (Qal) filthy
How it's translated
  • it flaps 1
  • filthy 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1
  • Zephaniah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מָרָא mara · to flap

1) (Hiphil) to beat (the air), flap (the wings) 1a) meaning uncertain 2) (Qal) filthy

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “flap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FLAP, noun

[Latin alapa, a slap. It seems difficult to separate flap from clap, slap, flabby, lap, etc.]

  1. Any thing broad and limber that hangs loose, or is easily moved.
  2. The motion of any thing broad and loose, or a stroke with it.
  3. The flaps, a disease in the lips of horses.
All definitions and other forms of “flap”

    FLAP, verb transitive

    1. To beat with a flap
    2. To move something broad; as, to flap the wings.
    3. To let fall, as the brim of a hat. [This sense seems to indicate a connection with lap.]

    FLAP, verb intransitive

    1. To move as wings, or as something broad or loose.
    2. To fall, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.