מָרָה mârâh — to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant)
Translated in the KJV as bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke, rebel (against, -lious).
a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke).
mârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 14Participle (active) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive absolute 1
And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 10Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (active) 3Infinitive construct 3Perfect (qatal) 2
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:
So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›