Merari in the Bible

Meaning: bitter; to provoke

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These are the names of the sons of Levi
according to their genealogy:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Levi lived 137 years.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAge At Death

The sons of Merari:
Mahli and Mushi.
These are the clans of the Levites
according to their genealogy.

And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.

Verse ConceptsCamping During The Exodus

And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,

As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

Verse ConceptsCounting Levites

These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Verse ConceptsCounting Levites

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Verse ConceptsFour Other Things

And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Holy ThingsThe Tabernacle

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

Merari's descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Things

From the tribe of Zebulun, they gave to the clans of the descendants of Merari, who were the remaining Levites:

Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,

All 12 cities were allotted to the clans of Merari’s descendants, the remaining Levite clans.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Things

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of Levi according to their fathers.

The sons of Merari: Mahli; Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,

And their brethren the sons of Merari were on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

Verse Conceptsfreemasonry

the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

To the children of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Twelve

To the children of Merari that remained were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono and its suburbs, and Tabor and its suburbs;

And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;

And the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Verse ConceptsSubdivisionsdivision

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

And, Hosah of the sons of Merari, had sons, - Shimri the chief, for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father, made him, chief.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornBirthrights

These, were the courses of the door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

Verse ConceptsSubdivisions

Then the Levites rose up, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalleleel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

The men did the work faithfully with foremen over them to supervise: Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites of the sons of Merari, Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites, and the Levites, all who were skillful with musical instruments.

Verse ConceptsFidelityInstrumentalists

and Hashabiah and Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, 20 men;

Verse ConceptsTwenty

Thematic Bible



The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

And the sans of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth. These the sons of the Levites to the house of their fathers.


And these shall be the sons of Levi, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

To Merari the families of the Mahlites, and the families of the Mushites: these they of the families of the Merari. And they being reviewed according to the number of every male, from the son of a month and above, six thousand and two hundred, And the chief of the house of the father to the families of Merari, Zuriel, son of Abihail: by the thigh of the dwelling shall they encamp to the north.


And the sons of Levi: Gershon and Kohath. and Merari.


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