מְעָרָה
mᵉʻârâh
Meaning
“cave”
BDB cave, den, hole
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36
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11 books · uncommon
Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 19:30
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מְעָרָה
8 books
Genesis 19:30
בַּ/מְּעָרָ֔ה
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
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1 Samuel 13:6
בַּ/מְּעָר֤וֹת
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
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2 Samuel 23:13
מְעָרַ֖ת
Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
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1 Kings 18:4
בַּ/מְּעָרָ֔ה
for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
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1 Chronicles 11:15
מְעָרַ֖ת
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
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Isaiah 2:19
בִּ/מְעָר֣וֹת
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, And into the holes of the earth, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
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Jeremiah 7:11
הַ/מְעָרַ֣ת
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
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Ezekiel 33:27
וּ/בַ/מְּעָר֖וֹת
Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
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