Definition
from an unused root meaning perhaps to arch; a couch (properly, with a canopy)
Traditional renderings: bed(-stead), couch.
Traditional renderings: bed(-stead), couch.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עֶ֫רֶשׂ:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
10 total
- Deuteronomy 3:11עַרְשׂוֹ֙ · His bed; עֶ֣רֶשׂ(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.)
- Job 7:13עַרְשִׂ֑י · my bedWhen I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- Psalm 6:6עַרְשִׂ֥י · my couchI am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalm 41:3עֶ֣רֶשׂ · his bedThe LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- Psalm 132:3עֶ֥רֶשׂ“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,
- Proverbs 7:16עַרְשִׂ֑י · my bedI have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
- Song of Solomon 1:16עַרְשֵׂ֖נוּ · [is] our bedHow handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
- Amos 3:12עָֽרֶשׂ׃ · of a couchThis is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
- Amos 6:4עַרְשׂוֹתָ֑ם · your couchesYou lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.