H4583 מָעוֹן

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 19 KJV occurrences

מָעוֹן

mâʻôwn · maw-ohn'

Definition

an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)

KJV Renderings

den, dwelling((-) place), habitation.

Derivation / Etymology

or מָעִין; (1 Chronicles 4:41), from the same as H5772 (עוֹנָה);

Sample KJV Verses (8 of 19)

Deuteronomy 26:15Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
1 Samuel 2:32And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
2 Chronicles 30:27¶ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 90:1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Jeremiah 9:11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:33And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
Nahum 2:11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?