MARAH mâr’ ə (מָרָ֖ה, bitter). At this place the Israelites found water when they had journeyed three days in the wilderness of Shur after their passage through the Red Sea. The water which they found there was brackish and undrinkable. Hence the name Marah, meaning “bitter” (Exod 15:23; Num 33:8, 9). At the murmuring of the people because of the condition of the water, Moses was shown a tree by God which he threw into the water, thereby miraculously sweetening the spring. The spring generally is located at the site of the present ’Ain Hawarah, forty-seven m. SE of Suez and about seven m. from the Red Sea.