4809 - Meribah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: מְרִיבָה
Transliteration: Meribah
Definition (short): Meribah
Definition (full): Meribah -- |place of strife|, two places in the desert

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from rib
Definition: |place of strife,| two places in the desert
NASB Translation: Meribah (8), Meribah-kadesh* (1), Meribath-kadesh* (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

The same as mriybah; Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert -- Meribah.

see HEBREW mriybah

KJV: And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
NASB: He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"
KJV: This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
NASB: Those were the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with the LORD, and He proved Himself holy among them.
KJV: 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 rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
NASB: "Aaron will be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
KJV: 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 eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
NASB: for in the wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to treat Me as holy before their eyes at the water." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
KJV: Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
NASB: because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.