Bible Names

Mara: meaning of the name

Mara means “Marah, bitter; bitterness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Mara in Hebrew and Greek

מָרָא H4755

Mârâʼ (maw-raw') — Mara, a symbolic name of Naomi

for H4751 (מַר) feminine; bitter;

Mara in Scripture

“Mara” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Ruth 1:20

    And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.