meara · cave

What it means

meara (מְעָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cave”.

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 cave in the rock, serving as shelter or dwelling.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cave ×33
• caves ×5
• den ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Joshua×8
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×7
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 19:30

  Lot went up from Zoar and lived on the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to live in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

• Genesis 23:9

  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field. For the full amount of silver let him give it to me among you as a possession for a grave.”

• Genesis 23:11

  “No, my lord, hear me: the field I give you, and the cave that is in it I give it to you. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:17

  The field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which is facing Mamre, the field and the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, that were within all its borders all around, were made over

• Genesis 23:19

  After this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 23:20

  The field and the cave that was in it were made over to Abraham as a possession for a grave by the sons of Heth.

• Genesis 25:9

  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is facing Mamre,

• Genesis 49:29

  He commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

• Genesis 49:30

  in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is facing Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.

• Genesis 49:32

  The field and the cave that is in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

• Genesis 50:13

  his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field that Abraham bought as a possession for a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, facing Mamre.

• Joshua 10:16

  Now these five kings fled and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:17

  And it was told Joshua, saying, “The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

• Joshua 10:18

  Joshua said, “Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave and appoint men by it to guard them.

• Joshua 10:22

  Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring out to me these five kings from the cave.”

• Joshua 10:23

  They did so and brought out to him these five kings from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.

• Joshua 10:27

  And it came about, at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua gave command, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden, and they put great stones on the mouth of the cave, which are there until this very day.

• Judges 6:2

  The hand of Midian was strong over Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

• 1 Samuel 13:6

  The men of Israel saw that they were in distress, for the people were hard pressed, and the people hid in the caves, in the thickets, in the rocks, in the strongholds, and in the cisterns.

• 1 Samuel 22:1

  David went from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. His brothers and all his father’s house heard it, and they went down there to him.

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  He came to the sheepfolds by the road, and there was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

• 1 Samuel 24:7

  David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul rose from the cave and went on his way.

• 1 Samuel 24:8

  Afterward David arose and went out from the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” Saul looked behind him, and David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.

• 1 Samuel 24:10

  Look, this day your eyes have seen how YHWH gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of YHWH.’

• 2 Samuel 23:13

  Three of the thirty chief men went down and came, at harvest time, to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.

• 1 Kings 18:4

  and it happened, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to each cave, and fed them with bread and water.

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of YHWH, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of YHWH, fifty by fifty men in each cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 1 Kings 19:9

  There he went into the cave and spent the night there. And the word of YHWH came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 19:13

  And it happened, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his cloak, and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And there, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Chronicles 11:15

  Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock, to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the camp of the Philistines was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.

• Psalms 57:1

  For the director. Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam, when he fled from before Saul in the cave. Show me favor, Elohim, show me favor, for in you my soul has taken refuge; and in the shadow of your wings I take refuge until the calamities pass by.

• Psalms 142:1

  A maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer. With my voice to YHWH I cry out; with my voice to YHWH I make supplication.

• Isaiah 2:19

  And they will go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the dust, from before the dread of YHWH and from the majesty of his loftiness, when he rises to terrify the earth.

• Isaiah 32:14

  For the palace is forsaken, the tumult of the city deserted; the Ophel and the watchtower have become caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

• Jeremiah 7:11

  Has this house, over which my name is called, become a den of robbers in your eyes? I too, look, have seen it, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 33:27

  Thus you will say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: As I live, surely those who are in the ruins by the sword will fall, and whoever is on the face of the field, to the animals I have given him to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves by pestilence will die.

And 3 more times.