Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
habitation
Usage: 1) dwelling, habitation, refuge 1a) lair, refuge (of jackals) 1b) dwelling
Maon means “den” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4583 — seleniazomai (“be a lunatic”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4583 מָעוֹן מָעִין (ma`own) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ma`own (maw-ohn') (or maiyn (1 Chronicles 4) n-m. 1. an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair) 2. (hence) a retreat (asylum) It has 19 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include god and their. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ma`own (maw-ohn') (or maiyn (1 Chronicles 4) n-m. 1. an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair) 2. (hence) a retreat (asylum) [from the same as H5772] KJV: den, dwelling((-)place), habitation. Root(s): H5772
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habitation
Usage: 1) dwelling, habitation, refuge 1a) lair, refuge (of jackals) 1b) dwelling
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ma`own, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4583.
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4583, grouped by book.
Maon (Strong's H4583) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "den". ma`own (maw-ohn') (or maiyn (1 Chronicles 4) n-m. 1. an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair) 2. (hence) a retreat (asylum)
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H4583 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4583 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as god and their. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.