meriva · quarrel

What it means

meriva (מְרִיבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “quarrel”.

Strife.

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. A dispute or quarrel between people.
2. "Quarrel": the place where the people complained against God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Meribah ×5
• strife ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 13:8

  Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.

• Numbers 27:14

  because you rebelled against my command in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the community, instead of sanctifying me at the waters before their eyes.” These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

• Deuteronomy 32:51

  because you broke faith with me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.

• Psalms 95:8

  do not harden your heart as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,

• Psalms 106:32

  And they provoked him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses because of them;

• Ezekiel 47:19

  And the south side toward the south: from Tamar to the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, to the Wadi, to the great sea. And this is the south side toward the south.

• Ezekiel 48:28

  And beside the border of Gad, on the side of the south toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, to the Wadi, to the great sea.