meona · dwelling, refuge

What it means

meona (מְעוֹנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dwelling, refuge”.

Dwelling, a place in which to take refuge; also a lair.

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 lair of a wild beast, where it lies down or rears its young.
2. A place to live; God's people find it in God himself.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dens ×3
• dwellings ×3
• dwelling place ×2
• den ×1
• dwelling ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Deuteronomy 33:27

  A dwelling place is the Elohim of old, and underneath are the eternal arms. And he drove out the enemy from before you and said, ‘Destroy!’

• Job 37:8

  And the animal goes into its lair, and in its dwellings it stays.

• Job 38:40

  when they crouch in their dwellings and lie in the thicket in ambush?

• Psalms 76:2

  And his booth is in Salem, and his dwelling place in Zion.

• Psalms 104:22

  The sun rises, they gather together, and in their dens they lie down.

• Song of Songs 4:8

  With me from Lebanon, bride, with me from Lebanon you will come; you will look from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.

• Jeremiah 21:13

  Look, I am against you, inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain, declares YHWH, you who say, “Who will come down against us? And who will enter into our dwellings?”

• Amos 3:4

  Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion utter his voice from his den unless he has caught something?

• Nahum 2:12

  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

• Zephaniah 3:7

  I said, ‘Surely you will fear me, you will accept correction’; and her dwelling would not be cut off, with all that I charged her; but surely they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.