Rebellion
מְרִיStrong’s H4805meri (me-ri)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meri is the Hebrew word usually translated “rebellion”, “rebellious” and “rebellion your”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.”
Meaning
- Rebellionrebellious (in construct)
How it's translated
- rebellion 18
- rebellious 2
- rebellion your 1
- in rebellion their 1
- rebellion of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 14
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Job 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
- 1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
- Nehemiah 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
- Job 23:2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Proverbs 17:11An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- Isaiah 30:9That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Hebrew dictionary
מְרִי meri · rebellion
1) rebellion 1a) rebellion 1b) rebellious (in construct)
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.