§ 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 · וּמְרִיבָ֑הand he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the ‘strife’ of the sons of Israel, and because of their ‘trying’ Jehovah, saying, ‘Is Jehovah in our midst or not?’Numbers 20:13 · מְרִיבָ֔הThese are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have ‘striven’ with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.Numbers 20:24 · מְרִיבָֽה׃‘Aaron is gathered unto his people, for he doth not go in unto the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because that ye provoked My mouth at the waters of Meribah.Numbers 27:14 · מְרִיבַ֥תbecause ye provoked My mouth in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the company—to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes;’ they are waters of Meribah, in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.Deuteronomy 32:51 · מְרִיבַ֥ת‘Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin—because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons of Israel;Deuteronomy 33:8 · מְרִיבָֽה׃And of Levi he said:—Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah;Psalm 81:7 · מְרִיבָ֣הIn distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.Psalm 95:8 · כִּמְרִיבָ֑הHarden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,Psalm 106:32 · מְרִיבָ֑הAnd they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,