Bed
עֶ֫רֶשׂStrong’s H6210eres (e-re-s)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eres is the Hebrew word usually translated “couch my”, “sarcophagus his” and “sarcophagus of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.”
Meaning
- Couch, divan, bed
How it's translated
- couch my 3
- sarcophagus his 1
- a sarcophagus of 1
- a couch of 1
- couch of 1
- bed our 1
- a couch 1
- couches their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Amos 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Song of Solomon 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 41:3The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
- Psalms 132:3Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
- Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
- Song of Solomon 1:16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫רֶשׂ eres · bed
couch, divan, bed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BED, noun
[The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]
- A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials.
- Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.
- Marriage; matrimonial connection.
- A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
All definitions and other forms of “bed”
- The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.
- Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.
- A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.
- Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22Isaiah 57:7Hebrews 13:4
BED, verb transitive
To place in a bed
- To go to bed with. [Unusual.]
- To make partaker of the bed
- To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
- To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.
- To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
- To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs
BED, verb transitive
To cohabit; to use the same bed
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.