עֶרֶשׂ
ʻeres · eh'res
a couch (properly, with a canopy)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning perhaps to arch;
a couch (properly, with a canopy)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bed(-stead), couch.
Letters
- 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
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › to consume, to destroy
To see and know of the head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֶרֶשׂ 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- my bed2 · 20%
- behold, his bedstead1 · 10%
- was a bedstead1 · 10%
- my couch1 · 10%
- him upon the bed1 · 10%
- into my bed1 · 10%
- also our bed1 · 10%
- in a couch1 · 10%
- themselves upon their couches1 · 10%
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.