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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]
Village name during the kingdoms of Israel, Judah until the Siege of Jerusalem (930 BC to 587 BC): Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤋𐤄𐤌 [1] [2] Pronunciation: Bayawt Lahawm Meaning: House of Bread Village name from 587 BC through the time of Christ: Aramaic: בית לחם Pronunciation: Beit Lekhem Meaning: House of Bread Beth Shemesh: Village
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;
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 ...
The fifth and sixth stations Marah and Elim are located on the Red Sea. The biblical books Exodus and Numbers refer to Pi-HaHiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon , while awaiting an attack by the Pharaoh , prior to crossing the Red Sea .
Its meaning is often deciphered as "delicate" or "weary". The name can be traced back to the Biblical matriarch Leah, one of the two wives of Jacob. [1] This name may derive from Hebrew: לֵאָה, romanized: lē’ah, presumably cognate with Akkadian 𒀖 littu, meaning 'wild cow', from Proto-Semitic *layʾ-at-~ laʾay-at-'cow'. [citation needed]
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:
Lee is a unisex given name from the English word 'lee'. Also used as a surname as one of derivative spellings often confused with the Old English surname and given name leah ("clearing; meadow"), which evolved to 'leigh' in Middle English, and present day 'lea' of the same meaning.