Strong’s H4585 · Hebrew
מְעוֹנָה
mᵉʻôwnâh · meh-o-naw'
Origin or מְעֹנָה; feminine of מָעוֹן (H4583), and meaning the same
Meaning {an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)}
In the King James Version den, habitation, (dwelling) place, refuge.
In 9 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
- Job 37:8Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
- Job 38:40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
- Psalms 76:2In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
- Psalms 104:22The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
- Song of Songs 4:8Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
- Jeremiah 21:13Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
- Amos 3:4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
- Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.