# מָרָה (marah) Israeli respelling: ma-rah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H4784. 44 Old Testament occurrences. to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke) King James renderings: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/marah-h4784 ## Occurrences - [Numbers 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/10) — And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water… - [Numbers 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 re… - [Numbers 27:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ey… - [Deuteronomy 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/26) — Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: - [Deuteronomy 1:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/43) — So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill. - [Deuteronomy 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/7) — Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the l… - [Deuteronomy 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/23) — Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the… - [Deuteronomy 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/24) — Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. - [Deuteronomy 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/18) — If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they h… - [Deuteronomy 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/20) — And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a… - [Deuteronomy 31:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/27) — For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and… - [Joshua 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/1/18) — Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be p… - [1 Samuel 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/14) — If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also… - [1 Samuel 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/15) — But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against yo… - [1 Samuel 30:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/6) — And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his so… - [1 Kings 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/21) — And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD,… - [1 Kings 13:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/26) — And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of… - [2 Kings 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/26) — For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. - [Nehemiah 9:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/26) — Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified a… - [Job 17:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/2) — Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? - [Psalms 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/5/10) — Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebell… - [Psalms 78:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/8) — And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was… - [Psalms 78:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/17) — And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. - [Psalms 78:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/40) — How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! - [Psalms 78:56](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/56) — Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: - [Psalms 105:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/28) — He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. - [Psalms 106:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/7) — Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the… - [Psalms 106:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/33) — Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. - [Psalms 106:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/43) — Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. - [Psalms 107:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/11) — Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: - [Isaiah 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/20) — But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. - [Isaiah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/8) — For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. - [Isaiah 50:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/50/5) — The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. - [Isaiah 63:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/10) — But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. - [Jeremiah 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/17) — As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. - [Jeremiah 5:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/23) — But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. - [Lamentations 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/18) — The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my y… - [Lamentations 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/20) — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sw… - [Lamentations 3:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/42) — We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. - [Ezekiel 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/6) — And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her:… - [Ezekiel 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/8) — But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did t… - [Ezekiel 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/13) — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a m… - [Ezekiel 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/21) — Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do,… - [Hosea 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/16) — Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces…