eres · bed, couch

What it means

eres (עֶרֶשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bed, couch”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A piece of furniture to lie or recline on, sometimes a luxury one.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bed ×5
• couch ×4
• couches ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Amos×2

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)

• Job 7:13

  When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will help bear my complaint,’

• Psalms 6:6

  I am weary with my groaning; every night I flood my bed; with my tears I soak my couch.

• Psalms 41:3

  YHWH will support him on the couch of illness; all his bed you have changed in his sickness.

• Psalms 132:3

  “I will not enter into the tent of my house; I will not go up onto the bed of my couch;

• Proverbs 7:16

  With coverings I have spread my couch, with colored fabrics of linen of Egypt.

• Song of Songs 1:16

  Look, you are beautiful, my beloved, also pleasant; also our bed is leafy.

• Amos 3:12

  Thus says YHWH: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the children of Israel be rescued, who dwell in Samaria at the corner of a bed and in Damascus of a couch.

• Amos 6:4

  those who lie on beds of ivory, and sprawl on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

And 1 more times.