Mara was the name Naomi asked to be called after losing her husband and both sons: Call me Mara, she said, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Yet her story turned from bitterness to blessing.
Poignant and simple, Mara is a name of honest lament — and, in Naomi's story, of restored hope.
Variants & nicknames
Marah
Mara in the Bible
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.