Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4785 - מָרָה Marah (a bitter spring in the Sinai peninsula)

Original Word:	מָרָה
Transliteration:	Marah
Definition:	a bitter spring in the Sinai peninsula
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(maw-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Marah

The same as mar feminine; bitter; Marah, a place in the Desert -- Marah.

see HEBREW mar

Englishman's Concordance

Marah=“bitter”
1) the spring with bitter water which was 3 days travel from the crossing place of the Red Sea in the peninsula of Sinai
Part of Speech: noun proper feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as H4751

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מָרָהproper name, feminineof bitter spring in Sinaitic peninsulaExodus 15:23 (twice in verse) (J), Numbers 33:8,9 (P), + ה locative מָרָ֑תָהExodus 15:23 (J); probably modern `Ain Hawwâraiun. (compare Rob^{BR i. 67}) Palmer^{Desert i. 40} Eb^{GS 125 f.})

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4785. מָרָה (Marah) — 5 Occurrences

Exodus 15:23
HEB: וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ מָרָ֔תָה וְלֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ
NAS: When they came to Marah, they could
KJV: And when they came to Marah, they could
INT: came to Marah not could

Exodus 15:23
HEB:לִשְׁתֹּ֥ת מַ֙יִם֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה כִּ֥י מָרִ֖ים
NAS: the waters of Marah, for they were bitter;
KJV: of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter:
INT: drink the waters of Marah for were bitter

Exodus 15:23
HEB:קָרָֽא־ שְׁמָ֖הּ מָרָֽה׃
NAS: therefore it was named Marah.
KJV: of it was called Marah.
INT: called the name Marah

Numbers 33:8
HEB:אֵתָ֔ם וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּמָרָֽה׃
NAS: of Etham and camped at Marah.
KJV: of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
INT: of Etham and camped Marah

Numbers 33:9
HEB: וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ אֵילִ֑מָה
NAS: They journeyed from Marah and came
KJV: And they removed from Marah, and came
INT: journeyed Marah and came to Elim

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