Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4585
מְעוֹנָה
meonahmeh-o-naw'
habitation
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉʻôwnâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4585is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4585
{an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)}
The King James renders it: den, habitation, (dwelling) place, refuge.
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
meonah is rendered "habitation". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
Deuteronomy 33:27מְעֹנָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a hiding place1
- and den his1
- and dens its1
- and in dens its1
- dens their1
- from den its1
- from dens of1
- in hiding places our1
- in the dens1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְעוּנִי | Meuni | Meunite | Uses4 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- בַמְּעוֹנ֑וֹת1
- בִּמְעוֹנוֹתֵֽינוּ׃1
- וּבִמְע֖וֹנֹתֶ֣יהָ1
- וּמְע֖וֹנָת֣וֹ1
- וּמְעֹֽנֹתָ֖יו1
- מִמְּעֹנ֣וֹת1
- מִמְּעֹ֣נָת֔וֹ1
- מְ֝עוֹנֹתָ֗ם1
- מְעֹנָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfpc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfpc/Sp3mp
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfpc
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HR/Ncfpc/Sp1bp
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
Deuteronomy
one use
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
- מְעֹנָה֙meonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a hiding place
Job
two uses
The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
- וּבִמְע֖וֹנֹתֶ֣יהָuvimonoteihaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and in dens its
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
- בַמְּעוֹנ֑וֹתvameonotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the dens
Psalms
two uses
His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
- וּמְע֖וֹנָת֣וֹumeonatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and den his
The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
- מְ֝עוֹנֹתָ֗םmeonotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: dens their
Song of Solomon
one use
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
- מִמְּעֹנ֣וֹתmimeonotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from dens of
Jeremiah
one use
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
- בִּמְעוֹנוֹתֵֽינוּ׃bimonoteinupreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: in hiding places our
Amos
one use
Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
- מִמְּעֹ֣נָת֔וֹmimeonatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from den its
Nahum
one use
The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
- וּמְעֹֽנֹתָ֖יוumeonotavconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and dens its
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.