מְרִי
rebellion
‘rebellion’ is one of 2 main senses 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
- 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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4805 appears in the Book of Nehemiah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Nehemiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מרי (mᵉrîy) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “rebellion.” It clusters heavily in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. It turns up in 21 verses across 8 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Numbers 17:10. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4805 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 →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,368
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,368 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 14 verses 67%
- Numbers 1 verse 5%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 5%
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 21 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 16 verses · 76%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 14%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rebellious 5×, They are a rebellious 4×, Rebellion 3×
- American Standard Version: Rebellious 6×, They are a rebellious 6×, Rebellion 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rebellious 7×, Are a rebellious 6×, Are rebellious 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rebellious 15×, Rebellion 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4805 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4805 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4805 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4805 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- rebellion
- rebellious (in construct)
Word origin
n.m. Pr 17:11 rebellion;—מְרִי Is 30:9 + 10 times; מֶ֑רִי Nu 17:25 + 9 times; sf. מֶרְיְךָ Dt 31:27; מִרְיָם Ne 9:17;—rebellion Dt 31:27 1 S 15:23 Ne 9:17 Jb 23:2 עם מרי rebellious people Is 30:9; בית (ה)מרי rebellious house (referring to Israel) Ez 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26, 27; 12:2(×2), 3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3, בית omitted (restored by Co) 2:7; 44:6; בְּנֵי מרי rebellious sons Nu 17:25 (P); with omission of בֵּן (or abstr. for concrete), אל תהי מֶ֑רִי be not a rebellious person Ez 2:8; אך מרי יבקּשׁ רע a rebellious man seeketh only evil Pr 17:11.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מרה (mârâh) (H4784) — 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.
מַר IV
- (pl. forms מָרֵא, מָרֵי, מָארֵי) (Arab. marua, cmp. מָרָא, to be strong; cmp. גָּבַר a. גֶּבֶר) man, lord, master; somebody; (as a title) Mar. Tosef. Shek. II, 15 מפני שמר על הכל because he was ruler &c., v. אֲמַרְכּוֹל; Hor. 13ᵃ אמר כולא (prob. to be read מרא כולא).—Lev. R. s. 31 מָרִי נח my lord Noah. Y. Peah VIII, end, 21ᵇ לא יכעוס מָרִי עלי let my lord not be angry &c.; a. e.—Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 19. Targ. Prov. XXIII, 2; a. fr.—Snh. 109ᵇ אי מר רבה … ואי מר וכ׳ if the one (Moses) is teacher (leader), thou art a pupil (subordinate), and if the other (Korah) is &c. Ḥull. 105ᵃ, a. fr. מר אמר חדא ומר אמר וכ׳ one said one thing, another another thing, but they do not differ. Yoma 20ᵇ ומר אמר לי Ms. M. (ed. ואת אמרת) and you, Sir, say to me &c. Ib. מר ניהו רב נינח מר (Rashi מר הוא) the man (you speak of) is a teacher; sit down, Sir. B. Kam. 60ᵇ מר אמר ליה לימא מר וכ׳ one said to him, tell us, Sir &c.—Ber. 2ᵃ, a. fr. אמר מר it has been said (introducing a discussion on a subject previously touched upon). Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ bot., a. e. אכן מָרָהּ דשמעתא וכ׳ in such a case the author of the rule would not have maintained it. Y. Ter. VIII, 45ᶜ הא מרי שמועתא והא מ׳ עובדא here is a master of traditions and a master of practice. Gen. R. s. 58 (expl. תושב, Gen. XXIII, 4) מארי ביתא (= בעל הבית) owner of a house, citizen, opp. דיירא. Succ. 32ᵇ, a. fr. שרי ליה מָרֵיה ל־ the Lord forgive him (he is mistaken).—Ned. 50ᵃ יעביד מָרָנָא עליה let our lord do with this (be contented for the present). Y. Ab. Zar. V, 44ᵈ [read:] אין את מָרָהּ דנפשך (cmp. Prov. XXIII, 2) if thou art master over thy desire; אי נפשך מָרָתָךְ if thy desire is master over thee; Deut. R. s. 2 אנא מָרֵי דנפשי אנא I am master over my desire; a. fr.—Pl. מָרֵי = בַּעֲלִים (used as sing. a. pl.; v. supra). Targ. Is. III, 12; a. fr.—מָרָוָותָא, מָרָוָתָא (pl. of מָרוּתָא). Targ. Prov. V, 13 (h. text מוֹרָי).—Gitt. 40ᵃ כלו מ׳ בתראי the owners at second hand (of the settlement of slaves) died out; אהדרו אבני מ׳ קדמאי apply (for emancipation) to the heirs of the original owners. B. Bath. 3ᵇ קטלינהו לכולהו מָרָוָתֵיה (Var. לכולהו בני מרותיה) he (Herod) killed all of his master’s family. B. Kam. 103ᵃ מ׳ דכיתנא Ms. M. (ed. מָרָוָותֵיה) the owner of the flax; a. fr.—Mar Samuel, Mar Ukban &c., v. respect. pr. nouns.—Fem. מָרְתָא, מָרְתָה e.g. Genesis 23:4
- 1. mistress, constr. מָרַת. Targ. I Kings XVII, 17. Targ. Is. XXIV, 2; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 52, v. בַּעֲלָה. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ מ׳ דביתא the hostess. Y. Peah VIII, 21ᵇ top [read:] הב ליה יתיר דנפשיה מָרָתֵיה give him (the poor man) more, for his appetite is his master (he is used to good living). Y. Ab. Zar. l. c., v. supra; a. fr.
- 2. pr. n. f. Martha. Gitt. 56ᵃ; a. fr. מ׳ בת ביתוס, v. בַּיְתוֹס.—M. Kat. 26ᵇ bot. אבא בר מ׳ (Ms. M. מָרַת); Yeb. 120ᵃ; Sabb. 121ᵇ; Yoma 84ᵃ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 60); a. e.
- 3. pr. n. m. (?). Snh. 5ᵃ bot. B. Bath. 52ᵃ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 8). Pes. 103ᵃ top מ׳ אמר (Ms. M. 1 רב ברונא; Ms. M. 2 מרונא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
מָרֵי
- , v. מָר
מרי I
- (b. h.) to be strong, fat.
- to fatten, stuff. Sabb. XXIV, 3 (155ᵇ) אין מַמְרִים וכ׳ (Y. ed. מַמְרִין; Bab. ed. מאמירין, v. אָמַר II) you must not stuff calves (on the Sabbath), v. הַמְרָאָה I.
מרי II
- v. preced.; cmp. מָר, to rebel against. Part. מוֹרֶה.—סורר ומ׳ (בן) the rebellious son, amenable to the law (Deut. XXI, 18–21). Snh. VIII, 1 מאימתי נעשה בן ס׳ ומ׳ when is one to be dealt with as a sorer umoreh? Ib. 68ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. מוֹרִים, מוֹרִין, v. מוֹרֶה II, a. מוֹרוֹס. e.g. Deuteronomy 21:18
- 1. to make strong, energetic. Gen. R. s. 42, end (play on מַמְרֵא) שה׳ פנים וכ׳ he showed a stern countenance against Abraham (rebuking him).
- 2. to provoke, to rebel. Y. Kidd. IV, beg. 65ᵇ (play on אמר, Neh. VII, 61) שהִימְרוּ לאל וכ׳ they provoked God with their evil doings. Ex. R. s. 1, end שעתידים להַמְרוֹת וכ׳ that they will rebel at the Red Sea; a. fr.—Esp. to disregard the authority of the Supreme Court (v. מַמְרֵא II). Snh. 14ᵇ; Sot. 45ᵃ; a. e. e.g. Nehemiah 7:61
- 3. to incite one against the other, to arrange a race; to bet. Snh. 25ᵇ (expl. מפריחי יונים) שמַמְרִין וכ׳ those who race doves (and bet on them). Sabb. 31ᵃ top שהִמְרוּ זה את זה who entered a wager.
מְרֵי
- ; Af. אַמְרֵי to provoke. [Targ. Zech. XII, 10, v. מְרר].—Sot. 35ᵇ top מאן אַמְרִיךְ דאִימַּרְיַית (Ar. ed. Koh. s. v. אמר: אימרייך דאימרת, corr. acc.) who provoked thee that thou didst get angry?; Num. R. s. 5, end.—Gen. R. s. 42 (play on א̇מ̇ר̇פל̇) דא̇מ̇ר̇י וא̇פ̇ל̇י וכ׳ he provoked and made sport of &c.
- 1. to get angry. Num. R. l. c. דאִמַּרְיַת; Sot. l. c., v. supra.
- 2. to quarrel, rebel. B. Mets. 84ᵇ אִימַּרְיָא Ms. M., v. מְרַד.—Ḥull. 58ᵇ אִימְּרָאִי … לבקא Ar., v. בַּקָּא (ed. אִימְּרָא … מב׳ she ran away in anger from &c., v. מְרַד). Keth. 63ᵇ אימראי quot. in Rashi to Job XXXIX, 18 (ed. אימרדה). e.g. Job 39:18
- 3. to refuse to abide by a bargain; to retract. B. Mets. 77ᵃ אייקרא … ואִימְּרוּ פועלים labor became dearer, and the laborers struck. Ib. ואימרי בעה"ב Ar. (ed. ואימר, fr. ימר, v. מוּר I) and the employer refused &c.
מָרִי
- Mari, name of several persons. Sabb. 154ᵃ (v. marginal note); B. Mets. 110ᵃ מ׳ ברה דבת שמואל; B. Bath. 149ᵃ (דאיסור גיורא) מ׳ בריה.—Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵇ top רב יצחק בר מ׳ (Bab. ib. 51ᵃ top יצחק קסקסאה); cmp. מָרְיוֹן.—B. Mets. 39ᵇ, v. אִיסָק.—Bets. 28ᵇ מ׳ בריה דרב בינזא; a. several others.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms H4805 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4805, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 21 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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