H4631 מְעָרָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 37 KJV occurrences
מְעָרָה
mᵉʻârâh · meh-aw-raw'
Definition
a cavern (as dark)
KJV Renderings
cave, den, hole.
Derivation / Etymology
from H5783 (עוּר);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 37)
- Genesis 19:30¶ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
- Genesis 23:19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 49:32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
- Joshua 10:18And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
- Joshua 10:27And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.
- 1 Samuel 24:3And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
- 2 Samuel 23:13And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15¶ Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.