Dwelling
מְדוֹרStrong’s H4070medor (me-dor)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medor is the Aramaic word usually translated “dwelling place your”, “dwelling place their” and “dwelling place his”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
Meaning
- Dwelling place
- Dwelling
How it's translated
- dwelling place your 2
- dwelling place their 1
- dwelling place his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:25In contextThat they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 4:32In contextAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Aramaic dictionary
מְדוֹר medor · dwelling
dwelling place Aramaic of ma.gur (מָגוֹר "sojourning" H4033)
מְדָר medar · dwelling
dwelling Aramaic of ma.gur (מָגוֹר "sojourning" H4033)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dwelling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DWELL'ING, participle present
tense Inhabiting; residing; sojourning; continuing with fixed attention.
All definitions and other forms of “dwelling”
DWELL'ING, noun
Habitation; place of residence; abode.
- “Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons” Jeremiah 49:33
- Continuance; residence; state of life.“Thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field” Daniel 4:25
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.