Topic
Bed
30 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 3:11Easton · Smith · Nave Made of iron
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deuteronomy 24:13Easton · Smith
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
- 1 Samuel 19:13Easton · Smith
And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
- Esther 1:6Smith · Nave Made of gold and silver
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
- Amos 6:4Smith · Nave Made of ivory
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
- Genesis 47:31Easton
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
- Genesis 48:2Easton
And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
- Genesis 49:33Easton
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Exodus 8:3Easton
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
- Exodus 22:26Easton
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
- Exodus 22:27Easton
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
- Deuteronomy 24:12Easton
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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- 1 Samuel 19:15 Easton
- 1 Samuel 19:16 Easton
- 1 Samuel 28:23 Easton
- 2 Kings 4:10 Smith
- Psalms 6:6 Easton
- Psalms 41:3 Easton
- Psalms 132:3 Easton
- Proverbs 7:17 Nave Perfumed
- Proverbs 22:27 Nave Exempt from execution for debt
- Song of Songs 3:7–9 Nave Made of wood
- Song of Songs 3:9 Smith
- Song of Songs 3:10 Smith
- Amos 3:12 Easton
- Judith 13:9 Smith
- Matthew 9:2 Easton
- Matthew 9:6 Easton
- Luke 5:18 Easton
- Acts 5:15 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 22 references
(Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15, 16, etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31; 48:2; 49:33, etc.); as a sofa for rest (1 Sam. 28:23; Amos 3:12). Another Hebrew word (er’es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed with curtains (Deut. 3:11; Ps. 132:3), for sickness (Ps. 6:6; 41:3).
In the New Testament it denotes sometimes a litter with a coverlet (Matt. 9:2, 6; Luke 5:18; Acts 5:15).
The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or platform along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight portable frame, sometimes only a mat or one or more quilts. The only material for bed-clothes is mentioned in 1 Sam. 19:13. Sleeping in the open air was not uncommon, the sleeper wrapping himself in his outer garment (Ex. 22:26,27; Deut. 24:12,13).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 10 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.