temptation
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
("temptation".) (See MERIBAH.) There Israel tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not? (Exo_17:7; Psa_95:8-9; Heb_3:8.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mas'sah. (temptation). A name given to the spot, also called Meribah, where the Israelites tempted Jehovah. Exo_16:7; Psa_95:8-9; Heb_3:8.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Massah
(Heb. Massah', מִסָּה, trial, as often; Sept. πειρασμός, πείρα; Vulg. tentatio), a name given to the spot in Rephidim where the Israelites provoked Jehovah by murmuring for want of water; otherwise called MERIBAH (Exo_17:7; Deu_6:16; Deu_9:22; Deu_28:8). The name also occurs (in the Heb.), with mention of the circumstances which occasioned it, in Psa_95:8-9, and its Greek equivalent in Heb_3:8.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.