Bible Names

Miriam: meaning of the name

Miriam means “rebellion.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Miriam in Hebrew and Greek

מִרְיָם H4813

Miryâm (meer-yawm') — Mirjam, the name of two Israelitesses

from H4805 (מְרִי); rebelliously;

People named Miriam in the Bible

Miriam in Scripture

“Miriam” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Exodus 15:20

    And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

  • Exodus 15:21

    And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

  • Numbers 12:1

    And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

  • Numbers 12:4

    And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.

  • Numbers 12:5

    And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

  • Numbers 12:10

    And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

  • Numbers 12:15

    And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

  • Numbers 20:1

    Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.