עֶ֫רֶשׂ
e.re.s
“bed”
Definition
a couch (properly, with a canopy)
from an unused root meaning perhaps to arch;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
עֶ֫רֶשׂ appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
This is what the LORD says:“As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the liontwo legs or a piece of an ear,so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescuedhaving just the corner of a bedor the cushion of a couch.
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory,and lounge upon your couches.You dine on lambs from the flockand calves from the stall.
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
When I think my bed will comfort meand my couch will ease my complaint,
I have decked my bed with coverings,with colored linen from Egypt.
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