Meribah
מְרִיבָהStrong’s H4809merivah (me-ri-vah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Merivah is the Hebrew word usually translated “meribah”, “meribath” and “like meribah”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?”
Meaning
- A fountain at Rephidim, in the desert of Sin; so called because the Israelites murmured against God
- The name of the water supply at Kadesh on the southern border of the promised land; the people also murmured here against God
How it's translated
- meribah 6
- meribath 3
- and meribah 1
- like meribah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Psalms 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Exodus 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 20:13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
- Numbers 20:24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
- Numbers 27:14For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
- Deuteronomy 32:51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 33:8And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
- Psalms 81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Hebrew dictionary
מְרִיבָה merivah · Meribah
§ Meribah = "strife" or "contention" 1) a fountain at Rephidim, in the desert of Sin; so called because the Israelites murmured against God 2) the name of the water supply at Kadesh on the southern border of the promised land; the people also murmured here against God
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.