מָרָה (ma.rah) means “to rebel” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: maw-raw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מָרָה · ma.rah · to rebel
1) to be contentious, be rebellious, be refractory, be disobedient towards, be rebellious against 1a) (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious 1a1) towards father 1a2) towards God 1b) (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey
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a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
KJV glosses: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and rebellious | 4 |
| rebelling | 4 |
| rebelled | 3 |
| and rebel | 2 |
| both of you rebelled | 2 |
| but they rebelled | 2 |
| and disobeyed | 1 |
| and rebelled | 1 |
| at their rebellion | 1 |
| bitter | 1 |
| but she has rebelled | 1 |
| but they were disobedient | 1 |
| but you rebelled | 1 |
| defied | 1 |
| defying | 1 |
| disobeyed | 1 |
| grieved | 1 |
| i have been most rebellious | 1 |
| i rebelled | 1 |
| rebel | 1 |
| rebellious | 1 |
| rebels | 1 |
| she has rebelled | 1 |
| she has rebelled against me | 1 |
| they disobeyed him | 1 |
| they have rebelled | 1 |
| they rebelled | 1 |
| they rebelled against | 1 |
| were bent | 1 |
| you have defied | 1 |
| you rebelled | 1 |
| you rebelled against | 1 |
| you rebels | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and rebellious | 3 |
| rebelled | 3 |
| ye have been rebellious | 3 |
| but rebelled | 2 |
| but they rebelled | 2 |
| against him by provoking | 1 |
| and a rebellious | 1 |
| and have rebelled | 1 |
| and i was not rebellious | 1 |
| and not rebel | 1 |
| and provoked | 1 |
| and rebel | 1 |
| and she hath changed | 1 |
| and they rebelled | 1 |
| because she hath been rebellious | 1 |
| because they provoked | 1 |
| because they rebelled | 1 |
| because ye rebelled against | 1 |
| bitter | 1 |
| but provoked | 1 |
| but rebel | 1 |
| for i have rebelled | 1 |
| for she hath rebelled | 1 |
| for they have rebelled | 1 |
| for ye rebelled | 1 |
| in their provocation | 1 |
| me for i have grievously | 1 |
| nevertheless they were disobedient | 1 |
| now ye rebels | 1 |
| oft did they provoke | 1 |
| that doth rebel | 1 |
| them but they provoked | 1 |
| thou hast disobeyed | 1 |
| to provoke | 1 |
| who was disobedient | 1 |
| you then ye rebelled | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 44 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
Read word by word“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
Read word by wordfor when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
Read word by wordBut you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
Read word by wordSo I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
Read word by wordRemember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
Read word by wordYou have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
Read word by wordIf a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Read word by wordand say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Read word by wordFor I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Read word by wordAnyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”
Read word by wordIf you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.
Read word by wordBut if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.
Read word by wordAnd David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
Read word by wordand the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
Read word by wordWhen the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
Read word by wordFor the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,
Read word by wordBut they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Read word by wordSurely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Read word by wordDeclare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.11
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Read word by wordBut they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Read word by wordHow often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Read word by wordBut they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
Read word by wordHe sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
Read word by wordOur fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Read word by wordFor they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
Read word by wordMany times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
Read word by wordbecause they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Read word by wordBut if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Read word by wordFor Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
Read word by wordThe Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
Read word by wordBut they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
Read word by wordThey surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordBut these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
Read word by wordThe LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Read word by wordSee, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
Read word by word“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
Read word by wordBut she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
Read word by wordBut they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordYet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
Read word by wordBut the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
Read word by wordSamaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.1
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