Marah
מָרָהStrong’s H4785marah (ma-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Marah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from marah”, “marah towards” and “marah”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.”
Meaning
- § Marah = "bitter"
How it's translated
- from marah 2
- marah towards 1
- marah 1
- at marah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Exodus 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 33:8And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
- Numbers 33:9And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
Hebrew dictionary
מָרָה marah · Marah
§ Marah = "bitter" the spring with bitter water which was 3 days travel from the crossing place of the Red Sea in the peninsula of Sinai
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.