Word Study · Strong's H4584 · Hebrew
מָעוֹן
Maon
maw-ohn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Mâʻôwn
“Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Maon, Maonites. Compare H1010 (בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן), H4586 (מְעוּנִי)lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel, corrected to מְעוּנִי.
- 8occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 8 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- מָע֑וֹן2
- בְּמָע֜וֹן1
- וּמָע֔וֹן1
- וּמָע֖וֹן1
- מָעוֹן֙1
- מָע֥וֹן׀1
- מָעֽוֹן׃1
How it is rendered · 4
- Maon4
- and Maon2
- [was] in Maon1
- [was] Maon1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- proper noun (a name)4
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
- proper noun (a name)1
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 4
- HC/Npm · 2
- HNpm · 1
- HR/Npl · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
1 Samuel4 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 23:24מָעוֹן֙maonproper noun (a name)So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,here: Maon
- 1 Samuel 23:25מָע֑וֹןmaonproper noun (a name)and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.here: Maon
- 1 Samuel 23:25מָעֽוֹן׃maonproper noun (a name)and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.here: Maon
- 1 Samuel 25:2בְּמָע֜וֹןbemaonpreposition + proper noun (a name)Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.here: [was] in Maon
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
Same headword in Strong's