Usually translated as
rebellious, rebel, be disobedient, provoke, bitter, provocation, provoking, change, disobey, grievously
Occurrences
Mârâh occurs 45 times in 44 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (8), Joshua (1), 1 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (1), Nehemiah (1), Job (1), Psalms (10), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (2), Lamentations (3), Ezekiel (4), Hosea (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Numbers 20:10 — And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels (הַמֹּרִ֔ים); must we fetch you water out of this rock?
- Numbers 20:24 — Aaron 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 (מְרִיתֶ֥ם) my word at the water of Meribah.
- Numbers 27:14 — For ye rebelled against (מְרִיתֶ֨ם) 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 1:26 — Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against (וַתַּמְר֕וּ) the commandment of the LORD your God:
- Deuteronomy 1:43 — So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against (וַתַּמְרוּ֙) the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
- Deuteronomy 9:7 — Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious (מַמְרִ֥ים) against the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 — Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against (וַתַּמְר֗וּ) the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 9:24 — Ye have been rebellious (מַמְרִ֥ים) against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
- Deuteronomy 21:18 — If a man have a stubborn and rebellious (וּמוֹרֶ֔ה) son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
- Deuteronomy 21:20 — And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious (וּמֹרֶ֔ה), he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 — For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious (מַמְרִ֤ים) against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
- Joshua 1:18 — Whosoever he be that doth rebel against (יַמְרֶ֣ה) thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
- 1 Samuel 12:14 — If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against (תַמְר֖וּ) the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
- 1 Samuel 12:15 — But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against (וּמְרִיתֶ֖ם) the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
- 1 Kings 13:21 — And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed (מָרִ֙יתָ֙) the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
- 1 Kings 13:26 — And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient (מָרָ֖ה) unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
- 2 Kings 14:26 — For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter (מֹרֶ֣ה): for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
- Nehemiah 9:26 — Nevertheless they were disobedient (וַיַּמְר֨וּ), and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Job 17:2 — Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation (וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם)?
- Psalms 5:10 — Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled (מָ֥רוּ) against thee.
- Psalms 78:8 — And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious (וּמֹ֫רֶ֥ה) generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
- Psalms 78:17 — And they sinned yet more against him by provoking (לַֽמְר֥וֹת) the most High in the wilderness.
- Psalms 78:40 — How oft did they provoke (יַמְר֣וּהוּ) him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- Psalms 78:56 — Yet they tempted and provoked (וַ֭יַּמְרוּ) the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
- Psalms 105:28 — He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled (מָ֝ר֗וּ) not against his word.
- Psalms 106:7 — Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked (וַיַּמְר֖וּ) him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
- Psalms 106:33 — Because they provoked (הִמְר֥וּ) his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
- Psalms 106:43 — Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked (יַמְר֣וּ) him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
- Psalms 107:11 — Because they rebelled against (הִמְר֥וּ) the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
- Isaiah 1:20 — But if ye refuse and rebel (וּמְרִיתֶ֑ם), ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
- Isaiah 3:8 — For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke (לַמְר֖וֹת) the eyes of his glory.
- Isaiah 50:5 — The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious (מָרִ֑יתִי), neither turned away back.
- Isaiah 63:10 — But they rebelled (מָר֥וּ), and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
- Jeremiah 4:17 — As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious (מָרָ֖תָה) against me, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:23 — But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious (וּמוֹרֶ֑ה) heart; they are revolted and gone.
- Lamentations 1:18 — The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled (מָרִ֑יתִי) against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 1:20 — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled (מָרִ֑יתִי): abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
- Lamentations 1:20 — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled (מָר֖וֹ): abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
- Lamentations 3:42 — We have transgressed and have rebelled (וּמָרִ֔ינוּ): thou hast not pardoned.
- Ezekiel 5:6 — And she hath changed (וַתֶּ֨מֶר) my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
- Ezekiel 20:8 — But they rebelled (וַיַּמְרוּ) against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:13 — But the house of Israel rebelled (וַיַּמְרוּ) against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Ezekiel 20:21 — Notwithstanding the children rebelled (וַיַּמְרוּ) against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Hosea 13:16 — Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled (מָרְתָ֖ה) against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
- Zephaniah 3:1 — Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!