Marah
ma'-ra, mar'-a (marah, "bitter"): The first camp of the
Israelites after the passage of the Red Sea (Ex 15:23; Nu 33:8
f). The name is derived from the bitterness of the brackish
water. Moses cast a tree into the waters which were thus made
sweet (Ex 15:23).
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The first station of the Israelites, where Moses made the
bitter waters sweet
Ex 15:22-25; Nu 33:8,9...
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(bitterness), a place which lay in the wilderness of Shur or
Etham, three days journey distant, Ex 15:23; Nu 33:8 from the
place at which the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, and where
was a spring of bitter water, sweetened subsequently by the
casting in of a tree which "the Lord showed" to Moses.
Howarah, distant 16 1/2 hours (47 miles) from ...
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bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites
(Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter
that they
could not drink them. On this account they murmured
against
Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the
fountain "a
certain tree" which took away its bitterness, so that
the people
drank of it. This was proba...
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("bitterness".) A fountain in the desert of Shur, between the
Red Sea and Sinai; Israel reached Marah three days after
crossing to the Arabian side (Exodus 15:23; Numbers 33:8). Now
Ain Huwarah, 47 miles from Ayun Muss, near the place of
crossing the Red Sea. The beneficial effect of the tree cast
into the bitter water by God's direction is pr...
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And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through
the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah....
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And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim
[were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm
trees; and they pitched there....
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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the
waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of
it was called Marah....
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