Lexical Summary mara: perhaps to flap (the wings) Original Word: מָרָאTransliteration: mara Phonetic Spelling: (maw-raw') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: perhaps to flap (the wings) Meaning: perhaps to flap (the wings) Strong's Concordance be filthy, lift up self A primitive root; to rebel; hence (through the idea of maltreating) to whip, i.e. Lash (self with wings, as the ostrich in running) -- be filthy, lift up self. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4754. mara I. [מָרָא] verb only Hiph`il Imperfect3feminine singular: meaning dubious, perhaps beat the air, or flap the wings, compare Di De (and Wetzst in De), Bu Du (compare Arabic whip, urge on a horse ?); — וּלְדֹבְבוֺ׃ לַסּוּם תִּשְׂחָק תַּמְרִ֑יא Job 39:18 she (the ostrich) flaps away, she laughs at the horse and his rider. II. מרא (√ of following, be fat; compare Assyrian marû III. causative, adjective marû, well-fed, fat; Arabic be digestible, agree with (of food)). |
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