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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4296

מִטָּה

mittahmit-taw'

bed

29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: miṭṭâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4296is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4296

a bed (as extended) forsleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier

The King James renders it: bed(-chamber), bier.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

mittah is rendered "bed". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:31“Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

“Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.

Genesis 47:31הַמִּטָּֽה׃ פ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the bed9
  • bed his7
  • a bed2
  • the beds2
  • a couch1
  • bed my1
  • bed of1
  • bed your1
  • beds of1
  • couches of1
  • on the bed1
  • the bier1

and 1 more, 29 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַמִּטָּ֞ה3
  • הַמִּטָּֽה׃3
  • מִטָּתֽוֹ׃3
  • הַמִּטָּ֑ה2
  • הַמִּטּ֑וֹת2
  • מִטָּתוֹ֙2
  • בַמִּטָּ֛ה1
  • הַמִּטָּ֔ה1
  • הַמִּטָּה֙1
  • הַמִּטָּֽה׃ פ1
  • מִטָּ֥ה1
  • מִטָּ֣ה1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular11HTd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular7HNcfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa

Genesis

three uses
  • “Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.

    Genesis 47:31

    • הַמִּטָּֽה׃ פhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

    Genesis 48:2

    • הַמִּטָּֽה׃hamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.

    Genesis 49:33

    • הַמִּטָּ֑הhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed

Exodus

one use
  • The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

    Exodus 8:3

    • מִטָּתֶ֑ךָmitatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bed your

1 Samuel

four uses
  • Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

    1 Samuel 19:13

    • הַמִּטָּ֔הhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”

    1 Samuel 19:15

    • בַמִּטָּ֛הvamitahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the bed
  • And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.

    1 Samuel 19:16

    • הַמִּטָּ֑הhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • Saul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

    1 Samuel 28:23

    • הַמִּטָּֽה׃hamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Then David ordered Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David himself walked behind the funeral bier.

    2 Samuel 3:31

    • הַמִּטָּֽה׃hamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bier
  • They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

    2 Samuel 4:7

    • מִטָּתוֹ֙mitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his

1 Kings

two uses
  • But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

    1 Kings 17:19

    • מִטָּתֽוֹ׃mitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his
  • So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.

    1 Kings 21:4

    • מִטָּת֔וֹmitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his

2 Kings

seven uses
  • Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.

    2 Kings 1:4

    • הַמִּטָּ֞הhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

    2 Kings 1:6

    • הַמִּטָּ֞הhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

    2 Kings 1:16

    • הַמִּטָּ֞הhamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the bed
  • Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

    2 Kings 4:10

    • מִטָּ֥הmitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a bed
  • And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.

    2 Kings 4:21

    • מִטַּ֖תmitatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bed of
  • When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.

    2 Kings 4:32

    • מִטָּתֽוֹ׃mitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his
  • But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

    2 Kings 11:2

    • הַמִּטּ֑וֹתhamitotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the beds

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

    2 Chronicles 22:11

    • הַמִּטּ֑וֹתhamitotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the beds
  • And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

    2 Chronicles 24:25

    • מִטָּת֖וֹmitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his

Esther

two uses
  • Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

    Esther 1:6

    • מִטּ֣וֹת׀mitotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: couches of
  • Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

    Esther 7:8

    • הַמִּטָּה֙hamitahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the couch

Psalms

one use
  • I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

    Psalms 6:6

    • מִטָּתִ֑יmitatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: bed my

Proverbs

one use
  • As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

    Proverbs 26:14

    • מִטָּתֽוֹ׃mitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.

    Song of Solomon 3:7

    • מִטָּתוֹ֙mitatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his

Ezekiel

one use
  • You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

    Ezekiel 23:41

    • מִטָּ֣הmitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a couch

Amos

two uses
  • This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

    Amos 3:12

    • מִטָּ֖הmitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a bed
  • You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

    Amos 6:4

    • מִטּ֣וֹתmitotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beds of

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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