marad · rebel

What it means

marad (מָרַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rebel”.

Refuse to obey the one in authority.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To rise up against a king or against God, refusing to serve him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rebelled ×14
• rebel ×8
• Are you rebelling ×1
• rebellious ×1
• rebels ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×5
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×2

• Genesis 14:4

  Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

• Numbers 14:9

  Only do not rebel against YHWH; and you, do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their shade has turned away from over them, and YHWH is with us; do not fear them.”

• Joshua 22:16

  “Thus says the whole community of YHWH: ‘What is this unfaithfulness that you have committed against the Elohim of Israel, turning back today from following YHWH by building yourselves an altar, to rebel today against YHWH?

• Joshua 22:18

  And you turn back today from following YHWH! And it shall be, if you rebel today against YHWH, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel.

• Joshua 22:19

  But if the land of your possession is unclean, cross over to the land of the possession of YHWH, where the dwelling of YHWH dwells, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against YHWH, and do not rebel against us by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of YHWH our Elohim.

• Joshua 22:29

  Far be it from us to rebel against YHWH and to turn back today from following YHWH by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering, and for sacrifice, besides the altar of YHWH our Elohim that is before his dwelling!”

• 2 Kings 18:7

  YHWH was with him; wherever he went out, he acted wisely. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

• 2 Kings 18:20

  You have said —only a word of lips— “There is counsel and might for war.” Now, on whom have you trusted, that you have rebelled against me?

• 2 Kings 24:1

  In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

• 2 Kings 24:20

  For through the anger of YHWH it came to pass in Jerusalem and in Judah, until he cast them from before his face. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 13:6

  But Jeroboam son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by Elohim; and he stiffened his neck and made firm his heart against returning to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, and they mocked us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

• Nehemiah 6:6

  In it was written, “Among the nations it has been heard, and Gashmu says it: you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are building the wall; and you are to become their king, according to these words.

• Nehemiah 9:26

  But they were rebellious and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and your prophets they killed, who testified against them to turn them back to you; and they committed great acts of contempt.

• Job 24:13

  They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways, and do not remain in its paths.

• Isaiah 36:5

  I say —only a word of lips—: “There is counsel and might for war.” Now, on whom have you trusted, that you have rebelled against me?

• Jeremiah 52:3

  For through the anger of YHWH it came to pass in Jerusalem and in Judah, until he cast them from before his face. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

• Ezekiel 2:3

  And he said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

• Ezekiel 17:15

  But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he escape, the one who does these things? Can he break a covenant and escape?

• Ezekiel 20:38

  And I will purge from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me; from the land where they reside as aliens I will bring them out, but into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Daniel 9:5

  we have sinned and done iniquity, we have acted wickedly and rebelled, and turned aside from your commandments and from your judgments.

• Daniel 9:9

  To Adonai our Elohim belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him,

And 2 more times.