מָעוֹן
ma.on
“habitation”
Definition
an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)
or מָעִין; (1 Chronicles 4:41), from the same as H5772 (עוֹנָה);
- dwelling, habitation, refuge 1a) lair, refuge (of jackals) 1b) dwelling
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מָעוֹן appears 14 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them:‘The LORD will roar from on high;He will raise His voice from His holy habitation.He will roar loudly over His pasture;like those who tread the grapes,He will call out with a shoutagainst all the inhabitants of the earth.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble,a haunt for jackals,an object of horror and scorn,without inhabitant.
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