Merab
מִיכַלStrong’s H4764mikhal (mi-khal)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhal is the Hebrew word usually translated “merab”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:”
Meaning
- A woman of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.49
How it's translated
- merab 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
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Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 18:17And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
- 1 Samuel 18:19But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
Hebrew dictionary
מִיכַל mikhal · Merab
A woman of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.49; daughter of: Saul (H7586G) and Ahinoam (H0293); married to Adriel (H5741); sister of: Jonathan (H3083H), Abinadab (H0041H), Malchi-shua (H4444) and Michal (H4324); half-brother of: Ish-bosheth (H0378), Armoni (H0764) and Mephibosheth (H4648H) Another spelling of me.rav (מֵרָב "Merab" H4764) § Michal = "who is like God" …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.