Bed
מִטָּהStrong’s H4296mittah (mit-tah)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mittah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bed”, “bed his” and “beds”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.”
Meaning
- Couch, bed, bier
How it's translated
- the bed 9
- bed his 7
- a bed 2
- the beds 2
- bed your 1
- on the bed 1
- the bier 1
- bed of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 7
- 1 Samuel 4
- Genesis 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 48:2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
- Genesis 49:33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Exodus 8:3And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
- 1 Samuel 19:13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
- 1 Samuel 19:15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
- 1 Samuel 19:16And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
Hebrew dictionary
מִטָּה mittah · bed
couch, bed, bier
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BED, noun
[The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]
- A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials.
- Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.
- Marriage; matrimonial connection.
- A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
All definitions and other forms of “bed”
- The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.
- Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.
- A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.
- Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22Isaiah 57:7Hebrews 13:4
BED, verb transitive
To place in a bed
- To go to bed with. [Unusual.]
- To make partaker of the bed
- To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
- To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.
- To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
- To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs
BED, verb transitive
To cohabit; to use the same bed
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.