Habitation
מְעֹנָהStrong’s H4585meonah (me-o-nah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meonah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hiding place”, “dens its” and “dens”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.”
Meaning
- Dwelling, habitation, refugeden, lair (of animals) · dwelling-place (of God) (fig.)
How it's translated
- a hiding place 1
- and in dens its 1
- in dens 1
- and den his 1
- dens their 1
- from dens of 1
- in hiding places our 1
- from den its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Amos 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 37:8Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
- Job 38:40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
- Psalms 76:2In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
- Psalms 104:22The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
- Song of Solomon 4:8Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
- Jeremiah 21:13Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Hebrew dictionary
מְעֹנָה meonah · habitation
1) dwelling, habitation, refuge 1a) den, lair (of animals) 1b) dwelling-place (of God) (fig.)
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.