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Monday, November 3rd, 2025
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #4755 - מָרָא

Transliteration

Mârâʼ

Phonetics

maw-raw'

Origin

for (H4751)

Parts of Speech

proper feminine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Mara = "bitterness"
1. a name that Naomi called herself due to her calamities

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Ruth 1

BSB (1)

Ruth 1

CSB (1)

Ruth 1

ESV (1)

Ruth 1

KJV (1)

Ruth 1

LEB (1)

Ruth 1

LSB (1)

Ruth 1

N95 (1)

Ruth 1

NAS (1)

Ruth 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Ruth 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מָרָא Ruth 1:20, see I. מַר above

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מָרָא i.q. מָרֵא مَرَى

(1) to lash a horse with a whip to quicken its speed (ftreichen, anpeitfchen), see Hiphil.

(2) to be contumacious, rebellious. Part. fem. מוֹרְאָה i.q. מוֹרָה rebel, Zephaniah 3:1.

Hiphil, once used of the ostrich rising from her nest, and by flapping her wings impelling herself on, as if with a whip. Job 39:18, כָּעֵת בַּמָּרוֹם תַּמְרִיא “now she lashes up herself on high.” Compare שׁוּט and שׁוֹט. The ancient versions, “lifts up herself, rises,” as if מָרָא were with the letters transposed, i.q. רָאַם = רוּם.

II.

מָרָא or

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List of Word Forms

מָרָ֔א מרא mā·rā maRa mārā