Rebellion
מְרַדStrong’s H4776merad (me-rad)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Merad is the Aramaic word usually translated “rebellion”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.”
Meaning
- Rebellion
How it's translated
- and rebellion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
מְרַד merad · rebellion
rebellion Aramaic of me.red (מֶ֫רֶד "rebellion" H4777)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rebellion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REBEL'LION, noun
[Latin rebellio. among the Romans, rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war.]
- An open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes allegiance; or the taking of arms traitorously to resist the authority of lawful government; revolt. rebellion differs from insurrection and from mutiny.
- Open resistance to lawful authority.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.