marar · embitter; provoke

What it means

marar (מָרַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “embitter; provoke”.

Make someone's life bitter, harass; provoke.

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 make someone's life hard, or to weep bitterly.
2. To attack someone fiercely, to harass him without respite.
3. To rebel against someone, to resist his authority.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bitter ×5
• as one grieves bitterly ×1
• bitterly attacked him ×1
• bitterness ×1
• do not rebel ×1
• grieve bitterly ×1
• has dealt very bitterly ×1
• it was enraged ×1
• who has embittered ×1
• will be enraged ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Ruth×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×3
• Daniel×2
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him;

• Exodus 1:14

  and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, with mortar and with bricks and with every kind of work in the field; all their work in which they made them work was ruthless.

• Exodus 23:21

  Be careful before him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

• Ruth 1:13

  would you therefore wait until they grew up? Would you therefore shut yourselves up, not belonging to a husband? No, my daughters, for it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of YHWH has gone out against me.”

• Ruth 1:20

  She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has dealt very bitterly with me.

• 2 Kings 4:27

  She came to the man of Elohim on the mountain and took hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of Elohim said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, and YHWH has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

• Job 27:2

  “As El lives, who has taken away my right, and Shaddai, who has embittered my soul,

• Isaiah 22:4

  Therefore I said, “Look away from me; let me be bitter in weeping; do not hurry to comfort me over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”

• Isaiah 24:9

  With song they do not drink wine; intoxicating drink is bitter to those who drink it.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Look, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you have loved my soul out of the pit of nothingness, for you have cast behind your back all my sins.

• Daniel 8:7

  And I saw it reaching the ram, and it was enraged at it and struck the ram and broke its two horns; and there was no strength in the ram to stand before it; and it threw it down to the ground and trampled it, and there was no one to deliver the ram from its hand.

• Daniel 11:11

  And the king of the south will be enraged and go out and fight with him, with the king of the north; and he will raise a great multitude, but the multitude will be given into his hand.

• Zechariah 12:10

  And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit of favor and of supplications; and they will look to me, whom they have pierced; and they will lament over him like the lament over the only one, and grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over the firstborn.

And 1 more times.