mara · vision; mirror

What it means

mara (מַרְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vision; mirror”.

Vision: what God makes someone see, sometimes at night. Also mirror (then made of polished bronze).

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. What God shows someone in dreams or awake: a vision.
2. A bronze mirror.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• vision ×6
• visions ×4
• mirrors ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×4

• Genesis 46:2

  Elohim spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.”

• Exodus 38:8

  And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 12:6

  And he said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, YHWH, make myself known to him in a vision; in a dream I speak with him.

• 1 Samuel 3:15

  And Samuel lay until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of YHWH. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

• Ezekiel 1:1

  And it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of Elohim.

• Ezekiel 8:3

  And he stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and a spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of Elohim, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy.

• Ezekiel 40:2

  In visions of Elohim he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a mountain very high, and on it was something like the structure of a city to the south.

• Daniel 10:7

  And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, and the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great trembling fell on them, and they fled to hide.

• Daniel 10:8

  So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me, and my splendor was turned on me into disfigurement, and I did not retain strength.

• Daniel 10:16

  And look, one with the likeness of human beings was touching my lips, and I opened my mouth and spoke and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision my pangs have turned upon me, and I have not retained strength.

And 1 more times.