H4809: מְרִיבָה
Mᵉrîybâh · pronounced mer-ee-baw' · “Meribah”
Definition
Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert
KJV translates it as: Meribah.
Word origin: the same as H4808 (מְרִיבָה);
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4809 is translated
- meribah ×8
- meribath ×3
Bible verses with H4809 (Mᵉrîybâh)
Mᵉrîybâh appears in 11 verses.
- Exodus 17:7
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?
- Numbers 20:13
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
- Numbers 20:24
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.
- Numbers 27:14
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.
- Deuteronomy 32:51
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah–Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 33:8
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;
- Psalms 81:7
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.
- Psalms 95:8
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- Psalms 106:32
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
- Ezekiel 47:19
And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
- Ezekiel 48:28
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.