Wandering
מָרוֹדStrong’s H4788marud (ma-rud)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Marud is the Hebrew word usually translated “homeless people”, “homelessness her” and “homelessness my”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?”
Meaning
- Restlessness, straying, wanderer, refugee
How it's translated
- homeless people 1
- and homelessness her 1
- and homelessness my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Lamentations 1:7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
- Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Hebrew dictionary
מָרוֹד marud · wandering
restlessness, straying, wanderer, refugee
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wandering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WANDERING, participle present
tense Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.
All definitions and other forms of “wandering”
WANDERING, noun
- Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.
- Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as a wandering from duty.
- A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged.
- The roving of the mind in a dream.
- The roving of the mind in delirium.
- Uncertainty; want of being fixed.
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.