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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:40 KJV (With Strong’s)

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How
mah (Hebrew #4100)
or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
KJV usage: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Pronounce: maw
Origin: or mah {mah}
oft did they δprovoke
marah (Hebrew #4784)
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Pronounce: maw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
o him in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, and grieve
`atsab (Hebrew #6087)
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
KJV usage: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
Pronounce: aw-tsab'
Origin: a primitive root
him in the desert
yshiymown (Hebrew #3452)
a desolation
KJV usage: desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness.
Pronounce: yesh-ee-mone'
Origin: from 3456
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Psa. 95:8‑10• 8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; (Psa. 95:8‑10)
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or, rebel against.

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Desert,
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Cross References

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How oft.
Psa. 78:17• 17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert; (Psa. 78:17)
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Psa. 95:8‑10• 8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; (Psa. 95:8‑10)
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Psa. 106:14‑33• 14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
 15Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
 16And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
 17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
 18And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
 19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
 20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
 21They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
 22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
 23And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
 24And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
 25But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
 26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
 27And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
 28And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
 29And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
 30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
 31And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
 32And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
 33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. (Psa. 106:14‑33)
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Num. 14:11• 11And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them? (Num. 14:11)
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Deut. 9:21‑22• 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.
 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. (Deut. 9:21‑22)
provoke him.
or, rebel against him.
grieve.
Isa. 7:13• 13And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God? (Isa. 7:13)
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Eph. 4:30• 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption. (Eph. 4:30)
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Heb. 3:15‑17• 15in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;
 16(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
 17And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? (Heb. 3:15‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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How oft did they provokec him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

JND Translation Notes

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Or "rebel against."