Dict: smith - MARA

smith:

MARA - M>@ - (sad, bitter), the name which Naomi adopted in the exclamation forced from her by the recognition of her fellow citizens at Bethlehem. kjv@Ruth:1:20)

MARAH - M>@ - (bitterness), a place which lay in the wilderness of Shur or Etham, three days journey distant, kjv@Exodus:15:23; kjv@Numbers:33:8) from the place at which the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, and where was a spring of bitter water, sweetened subsequently by the casting in of a tree which "the Lord showed" to Moses. Howarah , distant 16 1/2 hours (47 miles) from Ayoun Mousa , the Israelites’ first encampment, has been by many identified with it, apparently because it is the bitterest water in the neighborhood.

MARALAH - M>@ - (trembling) one of the land marks on the boundary of the tribe of Zebulun. kjv@Joshua:19:11)

MARANATHA - M>@ - an Aramaic or Syriac expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians, ch. ( kjv@1Corinthians:16:22) signifying "our Lord cometh."