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title: מַרְדּוּת — rebellion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַרְדּוּת (4780), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: rebellion. BDB 1906: n.f. rebellion, rebelliousness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַרְדּוּת

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«מַרְדּוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rebellion** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4780 · **BDB:** מַרְדּוּת

### Glosses

rebelliousness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rebellion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4780/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. rebellion, rebelliousness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4780/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. rebellion, rebelliousness, only in בֶּן־נַעֲוַת המ׳ 1 S 20:30, where read prob. בֶּן־נַעֲרַת הַמַּרְדוּת son of a girl of rebelliousness=rebellious girl, cf. 𝔊 𝔙 Th We Dr HPS; \> LagM i. 236 f. Bu (cf. also Dr Kit) der. מ׳ from רדה, and, retaining MT, read a woman gone astray (v. II. עָוָה) from discipline (Aramaic sense: √ רְדָא).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַרְדּוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4780/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 20:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.30/)

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וַיִּֽחַר־אַ֤ף שָׁאוּל֙ בִּיה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔וֹ בֶּֽן־נַעֲוַ֖ת הַמַּרְדּ֑וּת הֲל֣וֹא יָדַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי־בֹחֵ֤ר אַתָּה֙ לְבֶן־יִשַׁ֔י לְבָ֨שְׁתְּךָ֔ וּלְבֹ֖שֶׁת עֶרְוַ֥ת אִמֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.burned the.anger of.Saul on Jonathan and he.said to him O.son of.(the).perverse.\[woman\] of.(the) rebelliousness ? not do.I.know (dm).that \[are\].choosing you (to).the son of.Jesse to your.own shame and to the.shame of.the.nakedness your.mother your

*JPS 1917:* Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him: 'Thou son of perverse rebellion, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

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