menucha · rest, resting place

What it means

menucha (מְנוּחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rest, resting place”.

Rest, a place of rest.

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. The quiet place where one rests, without enemies or alarms.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rest ×15
• resting place ×6
• resting places ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, and the land, that it was pleasant; so he bent his shoulder to bear burdens and became subject to forced labor.

• Numbers 10:33

  And they set out from the mountain of YHWH a journey of three days, and the ark of the covenant of YHWH went before them a journey of three days to seek out for them a resting place.

• Deuteronomy 12:9

  for you have not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.

• Judges 20:43

  They surrounded Benjamin, pursued him, trod him down without rest as far as opposite Gibeah toward the sunrise.

• Ruth 1:9

  May YHWH grant you that you find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice and wept.

• 2 Samuel 14:17

  And your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be for rest, for like an angel of Elohim, so is my lord the king in hearing the good and the bad.’ And may YHWH your Elohim be with you.”

• 1 Kings 8:56

  “Blessed be YHWH, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he spoke; not one word has fallen of all his good word that he spoke by means of Moses his servant.

• 1 Chronicles 22:9

  Look, a son will be born to you; he will be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies around; for Solomon will be his name, and peace and quiet I will give to Israel in his days.

• 1 Chronicles 28:2

  King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of YHWH and for the footstool of the feet of our Elohim, and I made preparations to build it.

• Psalms 23:2

  In pastures of grass he makes me lie down; beside waters of rest he leads me.

• Psalms 95:11

  So I swore in my anger, “They shall not enter into my rest.”

• Psalms 116:7

  Return, my soul, to your rest, for YHWH has dealt well with you.

• Psalms 132:8

  Arise, YHWH, to your rest, you and the ark of your strength.

• Psalms 132:14

  “This is my rest forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

• Isaiah 11:10

  And it will happen on that day that the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner for the peoples, the nations will seek him, and his resting place will be glory.

• Isaiah 28:12

  to whom he said, “This is the rest; give rest to the weary; and this is the repose.” But they were not willing to hear.

• Isaiah 32:18

  And my people will dwell in an abode of peace, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

• Isaiah 66:1

  Thus says YHWH: “The heavens are my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet. Where is this house that you would build for me, and where is this place of my rest?

• Jeremiah 45:3

  You said, ‘Woe now to me, for YHWH has added affliction to my pain; I am weary with my sighing, and rest I have not found.’

• Jeremiah 51:59

  The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign; and Seraiah was chief of the resting place.

• Micah 2:10

  Arise and go, for this is not the resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, and with grievous destruction.

• Zechariah 9:1

  The burden of the word of YHWH against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its resting place; for to YHWH is turned the eye of human beings and of all the tribes of Israel.