Strong's H4809 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מְרִיבָה (Mᵉrîybâh)

Pronunciation: mer-ee-baw'

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Derivation: the same as מְרִיבָה (mᵉrîybâh) [H4808];

Definition: Meribah, the name of two places in the Desert

KJV Renderings: Meribah.

Senses

1. Meribah = "strife" or "contention"
2. a fountain at Rephidim, in the desert of Sin; so called because the Israelites murmured against God
3. the name of the water supply at Kadesh on the southern border of the promised land; the people also murmured here against God

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.