עֶרֶשׂʻeres

couch, divan (Job 7:13; Deuteronomy 3:11; Amos 3:12; Amos 6:4; 2 Samuel 17:28)

Pronunciation: eh'res · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6210

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 3:11 (King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
  • Job 7:13 I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’
  • Psalms 6:6 I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.
  • Psalms 41:3 The Lord nurses them when they are sick and restores them to health.
  • Psalms 132:3 “I will not go home; I will not let myself rest.
  • Proverbs 7:16 My bed is spread with beautiful blankets, with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).