Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
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Cave
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John 11:38
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
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מְעָרָה
mᵉʻârâh · meh-aw-raw'
30 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
a cavern (as dark)
Strong's KJV usage: cave, den, hole.
Strong's first: Genesis 19:30Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 11:15
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spḗlaion · spay'-lah-yon
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a cavern; by implication, a hiding-place or resort
Strong's KJV usage: :--cave, den.
Strong's first: John 11:38Strong's last: John 11:38
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Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
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cave
CAVE, noun A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den. This may be natural or artificial. The primitive inhabitants of the earth, in many countries, lived in caves; and the present inhabitants of some parts of the earth, especially in the high northern latitudes, occupy caves, particularly in winter.
Lot dwelt in a cave he and his daughters. Genesis 19:30.
CAVEs were also used for the burial of the dead.
Abraham buried Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelab. Genesis 23:9.
Bacon applies the word to the ear, the cave of the ear; but this application is unusual.
CAVE, verb transitive To make hollow.
CAVE, verb intransitive To dwell in a cave
To cave in, to fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. When in digging into the earth, the side is excavated by a falling of a quantity of earth, it is said to cave in.
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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