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title: מָרָה — Marah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָרָה (4785), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Marah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָרָה

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«מָרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Marah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 4785 · **BDB:** מָרָה³

### Glosses

Marah (4); to (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Marah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4785/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4785/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. of bitter spring in Sinaitic penins. Ex 15:23(×2) (J), Nu 33:8, 9 (P), + הָ loc. מָרָ֑תָה Ex 15:23 (J); prob. mod. ʿAin Hawwâratun (Cf. RobBR i. 67 PalmerDesert i. 40 EbGS 125 f.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4785/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 15:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.23/)

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וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ מָרָ֔תָה וְלֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לִשְׁתֹּ֥ת מַ֙יִם֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה כִּ֥י מָרִ֖ים הֵ֑ם עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמָ֖הּ מָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.came to Marah and not they.were.able to drink waters from Marah (dm) \[were\].bitter they therefore someone.called name its Marah

*JPS 1917:* And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

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[Numbers 33:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.9/)

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וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ אֵילִ֑מָה וּ֠בְאֵילִם שְׁתֵּ֣ים עֶשְׂרֵ֞ה עֵינֹ֥ת מַ֛יִם וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים תְּמָרִ֖ים וַיַּחֲנוּ־שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Marah and they.came to Elim and.\[were\] at Elim two.plus ten springs of.water and seventy palm.trees and they.encamped there

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they pitched there.

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