Lair
סֹךְStrong’s H5520sokh
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sokh is the Hebrew word usually translated “lair his”, “lair its” and “refuge his”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.”
Meaning
- Thicket, lair, covert, booth
How it's translated
- lair his 2
- in lair its 1
- in refuge his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
- Psalms 76:2In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
- Jeremiah 25:38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Hebrew dictionary
סֹךְ sokh · lair
thicket, lair, covert, booth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lair” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAIR, noun
[Latin locus.]
- A place of rest; the bed or couch of a boar or wild beast.
- Pasture; the ground.
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.