To lodge
לוּןStrong’s H3885lun
Appears in 79 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lun is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will remain overnight”, “grumbled” and “spend night”. It appears in 79 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.”
Meaning
- To lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide(Qal) · (Hiphil) to cause to rest, lodge · (Hithpalpel) to dwell, abide
- To grumble, complain, murmur(Niphal) to grumble, murmur · (Hiphil) to complain, cause to grumble
How it's translated
- it will remain overnight 6
- and they grumbled 5
- to spend night 5
- grumbling 4
- spend night 3
- it lodges 3
- to stay night 2
- and they stayed night 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 11
- Genesis 8
- Numbers 8
- Job 8
- Exodus 7
- Psalms 6
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
- Genesis 24:23And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
- Genesis 24:25She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
- Genesis 24:54And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
- Genesis 28:11And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
- Genesis 31:54Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
All 79 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
לוּן lun · to lodge
1) to lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lodge, pass the night 1a2) to abide, remain (fig.) 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to rest, lodge 1c) (Hithpalpel) to dwell, abide
לוּן lun · to grumble
1) to grumble, complain, murmur 1a) (Niphal) to grumble, murmur 1b) (Hiphil) to complain, cause to grumble
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lodge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LODGE, verb transitive
- To set, lay or deposit for keeping or preservation, for a longer or shorter time.
- To place; to plant; to infix.
- To fix; to settle in the heart, mind or memory.
- To furnish with a temporary habitation, or with an accommodation for a night.
All definitions and other forms of “lodge”
- To harbor; to cover.
- To afford place to; to contain for keeping.
- To throw in or on; as, to lodge a ball or a bomb in a fort.
- To throw down; to lay flat.
LODGE, verb intransitive
- To reside; to dwell; to rest in a place.
- To rest or dwell for a time, as for a night, a week, a month.
- To fall flat, as grain.
LODGE, noun
- A small house in a park or forest, for a temporary place of rest at night; a temporary habitation; a hut.
- A small house or tenement appended to a larger; as a porter's lodge
- A den; a cave; any place where a wild beast dwells.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.