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Traditionally, Sinai was equated with one of the mountains at the south of the Sinai Peninsula leading to the identification of Marah as Ain Hawarah, a salty spring roughly 47 miles southeast from Suez. [7] Some scholars have proposed to identify Marah as Bir el-Mura, based on the fact that the Arabic name is a cognate of Hebrew one. [13]
Marah may refer to: Marah (plant) or manroot, a kind of wild cucumber; Marah (band), an American rock band; Marah (Bible), one of the locations which the Torah identifies as having been travelled through by the Israelites during the Exodus; Micha Marah, Belgian popular singer; Marah, a variant of the Irish name O'Meara; Marah, (Arabic) Joy or ...
Mara can be either a surname or a (usually female) first name. Mara is Irish for ocean. Mary Magdalene by José de Ribera (1641). As a surname, it may be: Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal names Mária, Márkus (Hungarian form of Marcus or Mark) or Márton (Hungarian form of Martin), or from a short form of the old ecclesiastical name Marcel;
Lea is a feminine given name. In French, the name Léa is from the biblical name Leah. In Spanish, the same name is Lía, and in Italian, Lia. In English, it is a name for the word 'lea', pronounced [liː], meaning pasture or meadow. Notable people with the given name Lea include:
[15] [2] Le Roy, or Le Roi was a family name and also a title that was used by the kings of England & royal administration (such as Norroy and Viceroy). [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] This is seen with patronymic surnames like Fitzroy , from Fi(t)z , meaning "son of" and Roy , le Roy meaning "king", denoting the name bearer as a "son of the king".
Harper's Bible Dictionary: 1952 Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller The New Bible Dictionary: 1962 J. D. Douglas Second Edition 1982, Third Edition 1996 Dictionary of the Bible: 1965 John L. McKenzie, SJ [clarification needed] The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible: 1970 Henry Snyder Gehman LDS Bible Dictionary: 1979 Harper's Bible Dictionary ...
Leela is a name of Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit origin. It is a variation of the Semitic name Leila.It means “night” in both Arabic and Hebrew. As with many Sanskrit words, it cannot be literally translated to English but can be loosely translated as "play" (noun).
Maris, name of Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus) (Moses' adoptive mother in the Bible) [3] according to the chroniclers Michael the Syrian and Artapanus of Alexandria (Maris or Merris with the latter) Maris (mythology), an Etruscan god depicted as an infant, probably the god of fertility and love; Maris Crane, fictional character from the TV show Frasier