Judges 6:2
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
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Caves
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Hebrews 11:38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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מְעָרָה
mᵉʻârâh · meh-aw-raw'
3 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
a cavern (as dark)
Strong's KJV usage: cave, den, hole.
Strong's first: Judges 6:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 33:27
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opḗ · op-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a hole (as if for light), i.e. cavern; by analogy, a spring (of water)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cave, place.
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Strong's first: Hebrews 11:38Strong's last: Hebrews 11:38
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chôwr · khore
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a cavity, socket, den
Strong's KJV usage: cave, hole.
Strong's first: Job 30:6Strong's last: Job 30:6
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mᵉchillâh · mekh-il-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a cavern (as if excavated)
Strong's KJV usage: cave.
Strong's first: Isaiah 2:19Strong's last: Isaiah 2:19
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H4631
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
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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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