מְעָרָה
mᵉʻârâh · meh-aw-raw'
a cavern (as dark)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5783 (עוּר);
a cavern (as dark)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cave, den, hole.
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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- 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 see and know › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מְעָרָה 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
39 occurrences · 39 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in the cave5 · 13%
- of the cave5 · 13%
- in a cave4 · 11%
- and the cave2 · 5%
- him in the cave2 · 5%
- me the cave1 · 3%
- thee, and the cave1 · 3%
- and of the cave1 · 3%
- themselves in a cave1 · 3%
- unto me out of the cave1 · 3%
- unto him out of the cave1 · 3%
- them into the cave1 · 3%
- in the cave's1 · 3%
- and caves1 · 3%
- themselves in caves1 · 3%
- to the cave1 · 3%
- where was a cave1 · 3%
- out of the cave1 · 3%
- unto the cave1 · 3%
- thither unto a cave1 · 3%
- into the cave1 · 3%
- when he was in the cave1 · 3%
- into the holes1 · 3%
- shall be for dens1 · 3%
- become a den1 · 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.