מִטָּה
miṭṭâh
Meaning
“bed”
BDB couch, bed, bier
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13 books · uncommon
Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 47:31
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מִטָּה
8 books
Genesis 47:31
הַ/מִּטָּֽה
He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.
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Exodus 8:3
מִטָּתֶ֑/ךָ
and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading-troughs:
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1 Samuel 19:13
הַ/מִּטָּ֔ה
Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.
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1 Kings 17:19
מִטָּתֽ/וֹ
He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.
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2 Chronicles 22:11
הַ/מִּטּ֑וֹת
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. 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 that she didn't kill him.
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Esther 1:6
מִטּ֣וֹת
[There were hangings of] white [cloth], [of] green, and [of] blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.
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Ezekiel 23:41
מִטָּ֣ה
and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.
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Amos 3:12
מִטָּ֖ה
Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, Or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, And on the silken cushions of a bed."
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