מָעוֹן
mâʻôwn · maw-ohn'
an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מָעִין; (1 Chronicles 4:41), from the same as H5772 (עוֹנָה);
an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)
- an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair)
- hence, a retreat (asylum)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: den, dwelling((-) place), habitation.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָעוֹן 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
18 occurrences · 18 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- habitation5 · 26%
- in my habitation2 · 11%
- and a den2 · 11%
- and the habitations1 · 5%
- dwelling place1 · 5%
- and on his dwelling place1 · 5%
- the habitation1 · 5%
- thou hast been our dwelling place1 · 5%
- thy habitation1 · 5%
- shall be a dwelling1 · 5%
- a dwellingplace1 · 5%
- where is the dwelling1 · 5%
- so their dwelling1 · 5%
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.