Lexical Definition

‎מָרוּד‎ mârûwd (maw-rood') wandering ^H:N-M
from ‎רוּד‎ in the sense of maltreatment

cast out, misery.

• an outcast
• (abstractly) destitution

1) restlessness, straying, wanderer, refugee

See Greek: διωγμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מָרוֺד‎, Kö^{il. l, 127 f.}] noun [masculine] restlessness, straying (?); — suffix ‎עָנְיִי וּמְרוּדִי‎ Lam 3:19 plural suffix ‎יְמֵי‎ ‎עָנְיָהּ וּמְרוּדֶיהָ‎ Lam 1:7 (read probably ‎מְרוּדָהּ‎ Nö^{ZMG xxxvii (1883), 539}); plural ‎וַעֲנִיִּם מְרוּדִים‎ Isa 58:7, usually concrete the wandering (homeless) poor (Di thinks old Qal passive Participle; Che^Comm. reads Hoph`al ‎מוּרָדִים‎; Buhl<sup>Lex Hiph`il</sup> ‎מָרִידִים‎; Kö^{ii. 1, 128 takes} ᵑ0 abstract for concrete [apposition of ‎׳‎‎וַע‎]; so Du Che^Hpt [‎׳‎‎וַע‎ gloss], read perhaps participle ‎רָדִים‎ (‎מ‎ dittograph)).

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