Provocation
מְרִיבָהStrong’s H4808merivah (me-ri-vah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Merivah is the Hebrew word usually translated “strife” and “strife of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.”
Meaning
- Strife, contention
How it's translated
- strife 1
- in strife of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
מְרִיבָה merivah · provocation
strife, contention
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “provocation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROVOCA'TION, noun
[Latin provacatio. See Provoke.]
- Any thing that excites anger; the cause of resentment.
- The act of exciting anger.
- An appeal to a court or judge. [A Latinism, not now used.]
- Incitement. [Not used.]
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.