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Mara ♀ Of biblical origin, from Hebrew Mara ‘bitter’, a name referred to by Naomi when she went back to Bethlehem because of the famine in the land of Moab and the deaths of her husband and two sons: ‘Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me’ (Ruth 1:20).

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Mara [Heb.,=bitter], in the Bible, punning name taken by Naomi out of sorrow.

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