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מְרַאֲשָׁה

meraasha · at the head

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4763 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

meraasha (מְרַאֲשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “at the head”.

The place at someone's head where they sleep.

How to say it

me·ra·a·sha

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 one rests the head when sleeping, beside what one keeps close.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Genesis 28:11

    He came upon the place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and lay down in that place.

  • Genesis 28:18

    Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a standing stone, and poured oil on its top.

  • 1 Samuel 19:13

    Michal took the teraphim and laid them on the bed, and a weave of goats’ hair she put at its head, and covered them with the garment.

  • 1 Samuel 19:16

    The messengers came in, and look, the teraphim were on the bed, and the weave of goats’ hair at its head.

  • 1 Samuel 26:7

    David and Abishai came to the people by night, and look, Saul was lying asleep within the camp enclosure, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.

  • 1 Samuel 26:11

    Far be it from me, by YHWH, to stretch out my hand against the anointed of YHWH! Now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go away.”

  • 1 Samuel 26:16

    This thing that you have done is not good. As YHWH lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, over the anointed of YHWH. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

  • 1 Kings 19:6

    He looked, and there, at his head, was a cake baked on hot stones and a jug of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.