- Original: מרה - Transliteration: Marah - Phonetic: maw-raw' - Definition: 1. to be contentious, be rebellious, be refractory, be disobedient towards, be rebellious against a. (Qal) to be disobedient, be rebellious 1. towards father 2. towards God b. (Hiphil) to show rebelliousness, show disobedience, disobey - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1242 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to be (causatively make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively to provoke): - bitter change be disobedient disobey grievously provocation provoke (-ing) (be) rebel (against -lious). Total KJV Occurrences: 45 • against, 9 Numbers 20:24; Numbers 27:14; Deuteronomy 1:26; Deuteronomy 1:43; Deuteronomy 9:23; Joshua 1:18; 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Samuel 12:15; Psalm 107:11 • bitter, 1 2 Kings 14:26 • changed, 1 Ezekiel 5:6 • disobedient, 2 1 Kings 13:26; Nehemiah 9:26 • disobeyed, 1 1 Kings 13:21 • filthy, 1 Zephaniah 3:1 • provocation, 1 Job 17:2 • provoke, 2 Psalm 78:40; Isaiah 3:8 • provoked, 4 Psalm 78:56; Psalm 106:7; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 106:43 • provoking, 1 Psalm 78:17 • rebel, 1 Isaiah 1:20 • rebelled, 11 Psalm 5:10; Psalm 105:28; Isaiah 63:10; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 1:20(2); Lamentations 3:42; Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:21; Hosea 13:16 • rebellious, 9 Deuteronomy 9:7; Deuteronomy 9:24; Deuteronomy 21:18; Deuteronomy 21:20; Deuteronomy 31:27; Psalm 78:8; Isaiah 50:5; Jeremiah 4:17; Jeremiah 5:23 • rebels, 1 Numbers 20:10