מִטָּה
miṭṭâh · mit-taw'
a bed (as extended) forsleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5186 (נָטָה);
a bed (as extended) forsleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier
- a bed (as extended) forsleeping or eating
- by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bed(-chamber), bier.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to surround and contain › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to surround and contain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִטָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- upon the bed3 · 10%
- upon his bed3 · 10%
- from that bed2 · 7%
- himself upon the bed's1 · 3%
- into the bed1 · 3%
- and upon thy bed1 · 3%
- it in the bed1 · 3%
- to me in the bed1 · 3%
- in the bed1 · 3%
- the bier1 · 3%
- on his bed1 · 3%
- him upon his own bed1 · 3%
- off that bed1 · 3%
- for him there a bed1 · 3%
- him on the bed1 · 3%
- in the bedchamber1 · 3%
- in a bedchamber1 · 3%
- him on his bed1 · 3%
- the beds1 · 3%
- make i my bed1 · 3%
- behold his bed1 · 3%
- bed1 · 3%
- of a bed1 · 3%
- upon beds1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.