Word

מְעוֹנָה

mᵉʻôwnâh · H4585 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

dwelling place, den, lair, habitation

A location that deities, humans or animals have made their dwelling place; associated with security

Examples
Deuteronomy 33:27 “The eternal God is a hiding place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; And He drove out the enemy from you, And said, ‘Destroy!’
Job 37:8 “Then the animal goes into its lair And remains in its den.
Job 38:40 When they crouch in their hiding places, And lie in wait in their lair?

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

7 occurrences in 5 groups

הוּhis 3
אֲרִיlion 1
הּher 1
נוּour 1
הֶםtheir 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 6
מִןfrom 3
אֵלto, toward 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 4 words

מוֹשָׁב môwshâb · H4186 · location, situation, dwelling: Both words denote a place of dwelling. מוֹשָׁב (môwshâb, H4186) refers to a dwelling, settlement or seat, while מְעוֹנָה (mᵉʻôwnâh, H4585) refers to a habitation, den or refuge.
אֹהֶל ʼôhel · H168 · tent: Both terms are dwelling-place nouns — one meaning tent or tabernacle, the other den, habitation, dwelling place, or refuge — overlapping as words for a place of dwelling.
מָכוֹן mâkôwn · H4349 · place, site, base: Both words denote a place where someone or something dwells. מָכוֹן (mâkôwn, H4349) stresses foundation and stability, while מְעוֹנָה (mᵉʻôwnâh, H4585) adds the nuance of a den or refuge.
זְבוּל zᵉbûwl · H2073 · dwelling-place: Both words denote a dwelling place or habitation.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Dwell002002001005: מְעוֹנָה denotes a den or dwelling place, sharing its domain with the closely related habitation terms מָעוֹן (mâʻôwn, H4583) and מְעוֹנָה's own broader family of cognates.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עוֹנָה ʻôwnâh · H5772 · conjugal rights, marital rights · 1×מָעוֹן mâʻôwn · H4583 · dwelling place, den, lair · 18×מְעוֹנָהmᵉʻôwnâh · H4585

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4585. meonah מְעֹנָה noun feminine id.; — 1 den, lair of wild beasts: of מְעֹנָתוֺ…

H4585. meonah
מְעֹנָה noun feminine id.; —
1 den, lair of wild beasts: of מְעֹנָתוֺ כְּפִיר, Amo 3:4, so plural absolute מְעוֺנוֺת Job 38:40 (|| סֻכָּה), suffix מְעוֺנֹתָם Psa 104:22; construct אֲרָיוֺת מְעֹנוֺת Son 4:8; מְעֹנֹתָיו Nah 2:13 (|| חֹרָיו; of אַרְיֵה, figurative of Nineveh); of חַיָּה in General, תִשְׁכֹּן בִּמְעוֺנֹתֶיהָ Job 37:8 (|| אָ֑רֶב); so apparently figurative of men, hunted by מְעוֺנוֺתֵינוּ ׳י, Jer 21:13, figurative also of ׳י dwelling in temple, singular suffix, בְּצִיּוֺן מְעוֺנָתוֺ Psa 76:3 (|| סוּכּוֺ).
2 figurative קֶדֶם אֱלֹהֵי מְעֹנָה Deu 33:27 the ancient God is a dwelling-place (for his people; compare I. מָעוֺן 3).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Dwell8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0