Mriybah - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4809 — sykomoraia (“sycamore tree”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4809 מְרִיבָּה (Mriybah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Mriybah (mer-ee-baw') n/l. 1. Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert [the same as H4808] It has 6 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include meribah. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Mriybah (mer-ee-baw') n/l. 1. Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert [the same as H4808] KJV: Meribah. Root(s): H4808
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4809. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
Meribah
Usage: § Meribah = "strife" or "contention" 1) a fountain at Rephidim, in the desert of Sin; so called because the Israelites murmured against God 2) the name of the water supply at Kadesh on the southern border of the promised land; the people also murmured here against God
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Mriybah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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6 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
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 my word at the water of Meribah.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4809.
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
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 my word at the water of Meribah.
For ye rebelled against 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.
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4809, grouped by book.
Meribah (Strong's H4809) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Meribah". Mriybah (mer-ee-baw') n/l. 1. Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert [the same as H4808]
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's H4809 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4809 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as meribah. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.