Lodge
מְלוּנָהStrong’s H4412melunah (me-lu-nah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Melunah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a watchman s hut” and “like hut”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.”
Meaning
- Lodge, hut
How it's translated
- like a watchman s hut 1
- like hut 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מְלוּנָה melunah · lodge
lodge, hut
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.