מָרוֹת
Maroth
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Maroth’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4796 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.
Micah 1 verse
About this entry
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מרות — transliterated Mârôwth — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Maroth.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Micah. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Micah 1:12. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4796 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
- Micah 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Maroth 1×
- American Standard Version: Maroth 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Maroth 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Maroth 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Maroth = "bitterness"
- one of the towns in the lowland of Judah
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in (Shephelah of) Judah Mi 1:12; form attested by 𝔊 ὀδύνας (√ מרר).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מר (mar) (H4751) — bitter.
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.
מַרְוָת
- intoxicating drink, v. מְרַוָּא.
מָרוּת
- (מָר)
- 1. authority, dominion. Pesik. R. s. 40 (play on מֹרִיָּה) ארץ שמָרוּתוֹ … בתוכה (not לתוכה) the district in which the lordship of the world resides; ואף המקום מ׳ הוא על וכ׳ and the place, too, is the ruler of all other places (ref. to בעלתה, I Chr. XIII, 6, as a surname of Zion, v. בַּעֲלָה). Ber. 48ᵃ (in Chald. dict.) קא חזית דלא מקבלי מ׳ you see that they (the Pharisees) recognize no (royal) authority. e.g. 1 Chronicles 13:6
- 2. domestication. Sabb. 106ᵇ (v. דְּרוֹר) שאינה מקבלה מ׳ it does not submit to domestication. Tosef. B. Kam. I, 4 אם היו מ׳ Var. in ed. Zuck. (sub. של; ed. מרום, מרוס; ed. Zuck. תַּרְבּוּת) if they (the animals) were domesticated, opp. באו מן המדבר.
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
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4796, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Maroth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Bitterness; i.e., "perfect grief", a place not far from Jerusalem; mentioned in connection with the invasion of the Assyrian army (Micah 1:12).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(bitterness), one of the towns of the western lowland of Judah. (Micah 1:12)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
bitterness
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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