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Nehemiah 9:26
“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4784 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּמְר֨וּ — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 45 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 20:10Numbers 20:24Numbers 27:14Deuteronomy 1:26Deuteronomy 1:43
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָרָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.