mita · bed

What it means

mita (מִטָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bed”.

A couch.

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 piece of furniture on which one lies to rest or when ill; also, the litter.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bed ×22
• beds ×3
• couch ×2
• couches ×1
• litter ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×7
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Esther×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×2

• Genesis 47:31

  He said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed down upon the head of the bed.

• Genesis 48:2

  Someone told Jacob and said, “Look, your son Joseph has come to you.” Israel gathered his strength and sat up on the bed.

• Genesis 49:33

  When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

• Exodus 8:3

  The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

• 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 19:15

  Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up in the bed to me, to put him to death.”

• 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 28:23

  He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, and the woman too, urged him, and he listened to their voice; he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, gird on sackcloth, and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bed.

• 2 Samuel 4:7

  They came into the house while he was lying on his bed in the room where he slept, and they struck him and put him to death and removed his head. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

• 1 Kings 21:4

  Ahab went into his house resentful and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, when he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and did not eat bread.

• 2 Kings 1:4

  Therefore thus says YHWH, ‘From the bed to which you have gone up you will not come down, but you will surely die.’” And Elijah went.

• 2 Kings 1:6

  They said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, “Thus says YHWH, ‘Is it because there is no Elohim in Israel that you are sending to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore from the bed to which you have gone up you will not come down, but you will surely die.’”’”

• 2 Kings 1:16

  He spoke to him, “Thus says YHWH, ‘Because you sent messengers to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no Elohim in Israel to consult his word? Therefore from the bed to which you have gone up you will not come down, but you will surely die.’”

• 2 Kings 4:10

  Let us make, please, a small walled upper room and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, he can turn aside there.”

• 2 Kings 4:21

  She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of Elohim, shut the door behind him, and went out.

• 2 Kings 4:32

  Elisha came into the house, and there was the boy, dead, laid on his bed.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, him and his nurse, and put them in the room of the beds; and they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

• 2 Chronicles 24:25

  When they had gone from him —for they left him with many ailments —his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

• Esther 1:6

  There was white cloth, cotton and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to rings of silver and columns of marble; couches of gold and silver on a pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and dark stone.

• Esther 7:8

  And the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even subdue the queen with me present in the house?” The word went out of the mouth of the king, and they covered Haman’s face.

• Psalms 6:6

  I am weary with my groaning; every night I flood my bed; with my tears I soak my couch.

• Proverbs 26:14

  The door turns on its hinge, and the sluggard on his bed.

• Song of Songs 3:7

  Look, his litter, the one of Solomon! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

• Ezekiel 23:41

  and you sat on a glorious couch, with a table set before it, and my incense and my oil you set on it.

• Amos 3:12

  Thus says YHWH: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the children of Israel be rescued, who dwell in Samaria at the corner of a bed and in Damascus of a couch.

• Amos 6:4

  those who lie on beds of ivory, and sprawl on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;