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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Bed

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

90exact KJV occurrences 69Old Testament 21New Testament 25books containing the word 12mapped Strong's IDs 90occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 48:2

And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where bed appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 33 verses Exodus 22 verses Leviticus 76 verses 1 Samuel 44 verses 2 Samuel 66 verses 1 Kings 33 verses 2 Kings 66 verses 1 Chronicles 11 verses 2 Chronicles 22 verses Esther 11 verses Job 44 verses Psalms 87 verses Proverbs 44 verses Song of Solomon 44 verses Isaiah 43 verses Ezekiel 33 verses Daniel 66 verses Amos 11 verses Matthew 22 verses Mark 66 verses Luke 44 verses John 55 verses Acts 22 verses Hebrews 11 verses Revelation 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4296
מִטָּה

miṭṭâh · mit-taw'

23 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a bed (as extended) for sleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier

Strong's KJV usage: bed(-chamber), bier.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 48:2Strong's last: Amos 3:12

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HebrewH3326
יָצוּעַ

yâtsûwaʻ · yaw-tsoo'-ah

3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

spread, i.e. a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e. wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively)

Strong's KJV usage: bed, chamber, couch.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 5:1Strong's last: Psalms 63:6

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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2 Kings 1:4
H4296

Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

2 Kings 1:6
H4296

And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

2 Kings 1:16
H4296

And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

2 Kings 4:10
H4296

Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

2 Kings 4:21
H4296

And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

2 Kings 4:32
H4296

And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

1 Chronicles 5:1
H3326

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

2 Chronicles 16:14
H4904

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

2 Chronicles 24:25
H4296

And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Esther 7:8
H4296

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

Job 7:13
H6210

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

Job 17:13
H3326

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Job 33:15
H4904

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Job 33:19
H4904

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

Psalms 4:4
H4904

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Psalms 6:6
H4296

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Psalms 36:4
H4904

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 41:3
H6210

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Psalms 41:3
H4904

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Psalms 63:6
H3326

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Psalms 132:3
H6210

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Psalms 139:8
H3331

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Proverbs 7:16
H6210

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

Proverbs 22:27
H4904

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

bed

BED, noun [The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]

1. A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials. The word bed includes often the bedstead.

2. Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.

3. Marriage; matrimonial connection.

George, the eldest son of his second bed

4. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

5. The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.

6. Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.

7. A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.

8. Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22. The grave. Isaiah 57:7. The lawful use of wedlock. Hebrews 13:4.

The bed of the carriage of a gun is a thick plank which lies under the piece, being, as it were, the body of the carriage.

The bed of a mortar is a solid piece of oak, hollow in the middle, to receive the britch and half the trunnions.

In masonry, bed is a range of stones, and the joint of the bed is the mortar between two stones placed over each other.

BED of justice, in France, was a throne on which the king was seated when he went to parliament. Hence the phrase, to hold a bed of justice.

To make a bed is to put it in order after it has been used.

To bring to bed to deliver of a child, is rarely used. But in the passive form, to be brought to bed that is, to be delivered of a child, is common. It is often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.

To put to bed in midwifery, is to deliver of a child.

Dining bed or discubitory bed among the ancients, a bed on which persons lay at meals. It was four or five feet high, and would hold three or four persons. Three of these beds were ranged by a square table, one side of the table being left open, and accessible to the waiters. Hence the Latin name for the table and the room, triclinium, or three beds.

From bed and board. In law, a separation of man and wife, without dissolving the bands of matrimony, is called a separation from bed and board, a mensa et thoro. In this case the wife has a suitable maintenance allotted to her out of the husband's estate, called alimony.

BED, verb transitive To place in a bed

1. To go to bed with. [Unusual.]

2. To make partaker of the bed

3. To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.

4. To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.

5. To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.

6. To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs

BED, verb transitive To cohabit; to use the same bed

If he be married and bed with his wife.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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