Habitation
מָעוֹןStrong’s H4583maon (ma-on)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maon is the Hebrew word usually translated “dwelling place”, “habitation of” and “from habitation of”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.”
Meaning
- Dwelling, habitation, refugelair, refuge (of jackals) · dwelling
How it's translated
- a dwelling place 4
- a habitation of 4
- from habitation of 1
- to dwelling of 1
- dwelling place his 1
- habitation of 1
- in dwelling place of 1
- dwelling place your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 5
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Nahum 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 26:15Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- 1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
- 1 Samuel 2:32And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
- 2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
- Psalms 26:8LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Hebrew dictionary
מָעוֹן maon · habitation
1) dwelling, habitation, refuge 1a) lair, refuge (of jackals) 1b) dwelling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “habitation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HABITA'TION, noun
[Latin habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.
- Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling.
- Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells.“The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just” Proverbs 3:33
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.