H4296 - מִטָּה (miṭṭâh)

H4296 מִטָּה (miṭṭâh) mit-taw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bed

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: from H5186 (נָטָה);

KJV Usage: bed(-chamber), bier.

TWOT Reference: 1352c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) couch, bed, bier

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2825

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

couch, bed, bier

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִטָּה miṭṭâh BDB Definition: 1) couch, bed, bier Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5186 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1352c Total KJV Occurrences: 30

Bible Occurrences (28)

47:31 48:2 49:33

8:3

19:13 19:15 19:16 28:23

3:31 4:7

17:19 21:4

1:4 1:6 1:16 4:10 4:21 4:32 11:2

22:11 24:25

1:6 7:8

6:6

26:14

23:41

3:12 6:4

Genesis 47:31

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

Genesis 48:2

When Jacob...... was told, Your son Joseph has come to you, Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

Genesis 49:33

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.

Exodus 8:3

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.

1 Samuel 19:13

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 19:15

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 19:16

And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the goat [hair] on its head.

1 Samuel 28:23

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.