§ Meribah = "strife" or "contention" 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
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me.ri.vah · Meribah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 17:7 · וּמְרִיבָ֑הAnd 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 · מְרִיבָ֔הThis [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.Numbers 20:24 · מְרִיבָֽה׃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 · מְרִיבַ֥תFor 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 · מְרִיבַ֥תBecause ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.Deuteronomy 33:8 · מְרִיבָֽה׃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;Psalm 81:7 · מְרִיבָ֣הThou 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.Psalm 95:8 · כִּמְרִיבָ֑הHarden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:Psalm 106:32 · מְרִיבָ֑הThey angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: