מְרַד
rebellion
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4776 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
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מרד — transliterated mᵉrad — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “rebellion.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ezra 4:19. From the same root come מרד, מרד and מרדות. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4776 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Rebellion 1×
- American Standard Version: Rebellion 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Engaging in rebellion 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rebellion 1×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- rebellion
Word origin
מְרַד n.[m.] rebellion;—abs. Ezr 4:19.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מרד (mârad) (H4775) — to rebel.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָרַד I
- 1. to rebel, refuse obedience; to protest. Keth. V, 7 המוֹרֶדֶת על בעלה she who rebels against her husband (refusing marital duties; oth. opin. refusing to work). Ib. המוֹרֵד על אשתו a husband refusing marital duties (oth. opin. refusing to give her work and support); ib. 63ᵇ. Snh. 49ᵃ, a. fr. מורד במלכות rebel.—Meg. 13ᵃ מ׳ בעצת מרגלים he (Caleb) protested against the counsel of the spies. Ib. מרדה בגילולי וכ׳ she refused homage to the idols of her father’s house; a. fr.—[Y. Maas. Sh. I, 52ᵈ top מטבע שמרד, read: של מֶרֶד or מָרוֹד, q. v.]
- 2. to incite to rebellion. Gen. R. s. 23, v. infra.
- to make rebellious, to incite. Y. Keth. V, 30ᵇ bot. התורה הִמְרַדְתָּהּ עליו the Law requires her to be rebellious against him (to refuse sexual connection). Gen. R. s. 26 זה הִמְרִידָן עלי this man (Nimrod) made them rebel against me; ib. s. 23 זה המוֹרְדָן עלי (‘Rashi’: המרידן).
מָרַד II
- (v. preced., cmp. יָרד) to run, discharge matter; to be sore, inflamed. Ab. Zar. 28ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 40ᵈ top עין שמָרְדָה an inflamed eye (comment.: ‘which rebels’, i.e. threatens to burst out of its socket).—Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 3, ch. IV שחין המוֹרֵד ומכוה המוֹרֶדֶת a running (open) wound from contusion or from a burn; Neg. VI, 8; VIII, 5 השחין המכוה והקדח המוֹרְדִין (not והמורדין) running wounds from contusion, burn or inflammation; Tosef. ib. III, 10 השחין והמכוה והקרח והמירין ed. Zuck. (Var. והמידק, corr. acc.; v. R. S. to Neg. l. c.; R. S. to Neg. VI, 8 quotes a Var. מורר׳, v. R. S. to Par. IX, 2; v. מוֹרִיר). Sifra l. c., Par. 4, ch. VII מורדת; Y. Pes. VII, 34ᵃ bot. מגרדת (corr. acc.); a. fr.
מְרַד
- 1. = h. מָרַד I, to rebel, run away. Targ. I Kings XV, 27 (h. text קשר). Targ. II Kings IX, 14 (ed. Wil. מריד; h. text קשר Hithpa.). Targ. Jer. VIII, 5 למִמְרַד מן ed. Lag. (ed. למרד) to run away from (desert); a. fr.—Ber. 44ᵃ עד דמריד until he ran away (bewildered).
- 2. cmp. מֶרֶד II a. רָדָה) to rule. Targ. Lam. I, 7.
- to become rebellious, run away. Keth. 63ᵇ אִימְּרִידָא Rashi (ed. אִימְרְדָה, Alf. אִימְרְדָא) ran away (from her husband). B. Mets. 84ᵇ אימרדה אזלה וכ׳ (Ms. M. אימרי׳, v. מְרִי) she ran away and went to her paternal home.
מֶרֶד I
- [running away, running against, cmp. מַעַל,] desertion, rebellion. Pes. 55ᵇ אחר שלשה למִרְדָהּ after three days since her (the bird’s) deserting the eggs; ib. למוֹרְדָהּ. Midr. Till. to Ps. XC בשביל המ׳ שמרדתי אני וכ׳ I beg for amnesty for the rebellion which I made. Gen. R. s. 23; s. 26 (ref. to הוחל, החל, Gen. IV, 26; VI, 1; X, 8) לשון מ׳ it means desertion from the Lord (cmp. חָלַל, חוּלִּין); a. fr.—איגרת מ׳ a document stating a wife’s, or a husband’s, refusal of duties, v. מָרַד I. Keth. 64ᵃ; Y. ib. V, 30ᵇ bot.; Y. Kidd. I, 59ᵃ bot.; a. fr.—Pl. מְרָדִים rebellious acts, contrad. to sins of passion (זדונות). Tosef. Yoma II, 1; Yoma 36ᵇ; Y. ib. III, 40ᵈ bot., v. פֶּשַׁע. e.g. Genesis 4:26
מֶרֶד II
- (v. preced.; cmp. מרְדּוּת I a. רָדָה) [bringingdown,] subjugation. Gen. R. s. 42 (ref. to Gen. XIV, 4, sq.) בארבע עשר למִרְדָּן in the fourteenth year counting from their subjugation; Yalk. ib. 72. e.g. Genesis 14:4
מֵרַד
- (Bibl. chald. מְרַד) ch. = h.. Targ. Josh. XXII, 22 מירד ed. Lag. (ed. מרדא). Targ. II Sam. XV, 12 (h. text קשר); a. e.—Pl. מֵרְדִין, מֵי׳. Targ. Job VIII, 4. Ib. XXXV, 6 מְרָדָיִיךְ Ms. (ed. מָרוֹדָךְ, v. מָרוֹדָא).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
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