§ 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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H4809 — מְרִיבָה
me.ri.vah · Meribah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 17:7 · וּמְרִיבָ֑הHe called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”Numbers 20:13 · מְרִיבָ֔הThese are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.Numbers 20:24 · מְרִיבָֽה׃“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.Numbers 27:14 · מְרִיבַ֥תbecause you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)Deuteronomy 32:51 · מְרִיבַ֥תbecause you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.Deuteronomy 33:8 · מְרִיבָֽה׃Of Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;Psalm 81:7 · מְרִיבָ֣הYou called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.Psalm 95:8 · כִּמְרִיבָ֑הDon’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,Psalm 106:32 · מְרִיבָ֑הThey angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;