maon · dwelling, lair

What it means

maon (מָעוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dwelling, lair”.

Dwelling: the place where someone lives; often the heavens or the sanctuary where God dwells; also the lair of jackals.

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 place where someone lives; also heaven, where God lives.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dwelling ×11
• lair ×4
• den ×1
• habitation ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×5
• Jeremiah×5
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• Deuteronomy 26:15

  Look down from your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

• 1 Samuel 2:29

  Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering that I commanded for the dwelling place, and honor your sons more than me, fattening yourselves with the first part of every offering of Israel my people?

• 1 Samuel 2:32

  And you will look on the distress of the dwelling place in all the good that he does to Israel; and there will not be an old man in your house all the days.

• 2 Chronicles 30:27

  Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling, to the heavens.

• 2 Chronicles 36:15

  YHWH, the Elohim of their fathers, sent word to them through his messengers, sending them again and again, for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling.

• Psalms 26:8

  YHWH, I have loved the habitation of your house and the place of the dwelling of your glory.

• Psalms 68:5

  Father of orphans and judge of widows is Elohim in his holy dwelling.

• Psalms 71:3

  Be to me a rock of dwelling to enter always; you have commanded to save me, for my crag and my fortress are you.

• Psalms 90:1

  A prayer of Moses, the man of Elohim. Adonai, you have been a dwelling place for us from generation to generation.

• Psalms 91:9

  For you, YHWH, are my refuge! Elyon you have made your dwelling place;

• Jeremiah 9:11

  And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a lair of jackals, and the cities of Judah I will make a desolation, without inhabitant.”

• Jeremiah 10:22

  The sound of a report! Look, it comes, and a great commotion from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

• Jeremiah 25:30

  And you, prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, ‘YHWH will roar from on high, and from his holy dwelling he will utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold; a shout, like those who tread grapes, he will raise against all the inhabitants of the earth.

• Jeremiah 49:33

  And Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a desolation forever; no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

• Jeremiah 51:37

  And Babylon will become heaps, a lair of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• Nahum 2:11

  Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion walked, the lioness, there the lion’s cub, and there was no one to make them afraid?

• Zechariah 2:13

  Silence, all flesh, before YHWH! For he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.