Marar means “be in” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4843 — symperilambano (“embrace”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4843 מָרַר (marar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. marar (maw-rar') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root, properly, to trickle (see H4752); but used only as a denominative from H4751] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include but, bitter, saw, and only. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
marar (maw-rar') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root, properly, to trickle (see H4752); but used only as a denominative from H4751] KJV: (be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, - ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex. Root(s): H4752, H4751
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4843. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to provoke
Usage: 1) to be bitter 1a) (Qal) to be bitter 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to show bitterness 1b2) to make bitter 1c) (Hiphil) to make bitter, embitter 1d) (Hithpalpel) 1d1) to embitter oneself 1d2) to be enraged 2) (TWOT) to be strong, strengthen
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render marar, 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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14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4843.
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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Marar (Strong's H4843) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be in". marar (maw-rar') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root, properly, to trickle (see H4752); but used only as a denominative from H4751]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H4843 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4843 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as but, bitter, saw, and only. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.