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Lexicon :: Strong's H4296 - miṭṭâ

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מִטָּה
Transliteration
miṭṭâ
Pronunciation
mit-taw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1352c

Strong’s Definitions

מִטָּה miṭṭâh, mit-taw'; from H5186; a bed (as extended) for sleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier:—bed(-chamber), bier.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H4296 in the following manner: bed (26x), bedchamber (with H2315) (2x), bier (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H4296 in the following manner: bed (26x), bedchamber (with H2315) (2x), bier (1x).

  1. couch, bed, bier

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִטָּה miṭṭâh, mit-taw'; from H5186; a bed (as extended) for sleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier:—bed(-chamber), bier.
STRONGS H4296: Abbreviations
† מִטָּה noun feminine couch, bed (place of reclining; מטותם Ecclus 48:6); — absolute מִטָּה Amos 3:12 + 14 times; construct מִטַּת 2 Kings 4:21; suffix מִטָּתִי Psalm 6:7, מִטָּתֶ֑ךָ Exodus 7:28, מִטָּתוֺ 2 Samuel 4:7 + 6 times; plural מִטּוֺת absolute 2 Kings 11:2; 2 Chronicles 22:11, construct Amos 6:4; Esther 1:6; — couch, bed, common article of furniture 2 Kings 4:10, compare 2 Kings 4:21; 2 Kings 4:32; 1 Kings 17:19, for repose, especially at night, or in illness Genesis 47:31 (J; ראֹשׁ הַמּ׳), compare Genesis 48:2 (J), Genesis 49:33 (P), Psalm 6:7; Proverbs 26:14; 2 Chronicles 24:25 (probably), and for sitting, or reclining by day 1 Samuel 28:23; 1 Kings 21:4; מ'פְּאַת Amos 3:12; seat of King Solomon Songs 3:7; in bed-chamber (חֲדַר מִשְׁכָּב) Exodus 7:28 (J), 2 Samuel 4:7; sometimes portable 1 Samuel 19:15 compare 1 Samuel 19:13; 1 Samuel 19:16, hence = bier 2 Samuel 3:31; sometimes high 2 Kings 1:4, 6, 16 (עָלָה שָׁם opposed to יָרַד מִן); sometimes costly, (with frames) of ivory Amos 6:4; for reclining at feasts, made of gold and silver Esther 1:6; compare כְּבוּדָּה מ׳ Ezekiel 23:41 glorious couch; חֲדַר הַמִּטּוֺת 2 Kings 11:2 2 Chronicles 22:11 (see H4296 חֶדֶר). — compare also H4904 מִשְׁכָּב (H7901 שׁכב), H6210 עֶרֶשׂ.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

47:31; 48:2; 49:33

1 Samuel

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

2 Samuel

3:31; 4:7; 4:7

1 Kings

17:19; 21:4

2 Kings

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

2 Chronicles

22:11; 22:11; 24:25

Esther

1:6; 1:6

Psalms

6:7; 6:7

Proverbs

26:14

Song of Songs

3:7

Ezekiel

23:41

Amos

3:12; 3:12; 6:4; 6:4

H4296

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4296 matches the Hebrew מִטָּה (miṭṭâ),
which occurs 29 times in 29 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - Then he said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:2 - Then [fn]it was told to Jacob, “Behold, your son Joseph has come to you,” so Israel strengthened himself and sat [fn]up in the bed H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:33 - So Jacob finished commanding his sons. And he drew his feet into the bed H4296 and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - “And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed H4296 and into the houses of your servants and on your people and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:13 - Then Michal took the [fn]household idol and laid it on the bed H4296 and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:15 - So Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on [fn]his bed H4296, that I may put him to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:16 - The messengers came, and behold, the [fn]household idol was on the bed H4296 with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:23 - But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to [fn]them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 -

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - Thus they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed H4296 in his bedroom, and they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. And they took his head and went on the way leading to the Arabah all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4 - So Ahab came into his house sullen and enraged because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed H4296 and turned away his face and ate no [fn]food.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:4 - “Now therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘[fn]You shall not come down from the bed H4296 where you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” Then Elijah departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - And they said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and say to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore [fn]you shall not come down from the bed H4296 where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - Then he spoke to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?—therefore [fn]you shall not come down from the bed H4296 where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - “Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed H4296 for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:21 - Then she went up and laid him on the bed H4296 of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:32 -

Then Elisha came into the house, and behold, the boy was dead and laid on his bed H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom H4296. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Jehoshabeath the king’s daughter took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom H4296. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so she did not put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:25 -

When they had gone from him (for they left him very sick), his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the [fn]son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed H4296. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:6 - There were hangings of fine white and [fn]blue linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble pillars, and couches H4296 of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - Now the king returned from the garden of his palace into the [fn]place where they were drinking wine. And Haman was falling on the couch H4296 where Esther was. So the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:6 -

I am weary with my sighing;

Every night I make my bed H4296 swim,

I flood my couch with my tears.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:14 -

As the door turns on its hinges,

So does the sluggard on his bed H4296.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:7 -

“Behold, it is the traveling couch H4296 of Solomon;

Sixty mighty men around it,

Of the mighty men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:41 - and you sat on a splendid couch H4296 with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“Just as the shepherd delivers from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear,

So will the sons of Israel inhabiting Samaria be delivered—

With the corner of a bed H4296 and the [fn]cover of a couch!

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 -

Those who lay down on beds H4296 of ivory

And sprawl on their couches

And eat lambs from the flock

And calves from the midst of the stall,

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