Habitation
נָוָהStrong’s H4999naah (na-ah)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pastures of” and “settlements of”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”
Meaning
- Pasture, abode, abode of shepherd, habitation, meadowpasture, meadow · abode
How it's translated
- pastures of 9
- settlements of 2
- in pastures of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Jeremiah 3
- Joel 3
- Lamentations 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 65:12They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
- Psalms 74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- Psalms 83:12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
- Jeremiah 9:10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
- Jeremiah 23:10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
- Jeremiah 25:37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
נָוָה naah · habitation
1) pasture, abode, abode of shepherd, habitation, meadow 1a) pasture, meadow 1b) abode
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.