Merorah מְרֹרָה

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Merorah
מְרֹרָה
Transliterationmerorah
Strong's numberH4846
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossgall
Occurrences4 in 4 verses
Most frequent inJob (3)

Merorah (Hebrew מְרֹרָה, Strong's H4846) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “gall”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) bitter thing, gall, poison
1a) gall, gall-bladder (seat of gall)
1b) poison, venom
1c) bitter thing
1d) bitterness

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVgall (2), bitter (1), things (1)
BSBbitter (1), bitter accusations (1), into the venom (1), his liver (1)

Verses

Every verse with Merorah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

Job

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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