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bed

Meaning of “bed”

Sense 1: A place for rest or sleep. Sense 2: The marriage bed or a place in which something lies. As a verb, to place or lie in a bed.

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90 occurrences87 verses25 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 48:2

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Showing verses 51–60 of 87 · 90 word occurrences in this result

Song of Solomon 3:1
BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 3:1 · retained source text

¶ By night on my bed I sought him whome my soule loueth. I sought him, but I found him not.

Song of Solomon 3:7
Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 3:7 · retained source text

Behold his bed, which is Solomons: threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel:

Song of Solomon 5:13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 5:13 · retained source text

His cheekes are as a bed of spices, as sweete flowers: his lippes like lillies, dropping sweete smelling myrrhe.

1611 marginal noteOr, towers of perfumes.

Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 28:20 · retained source text

For the bed is shorter, then that a man can stretch himselfe on it: and the couering narrower, then that he can wrap himselfe in it.

Isaiah 57:8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 57:8 · retained source text

Behinde the doores also and the posts hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for thou hast discouered thy selfe to an other then mee, and art gone vp: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a couenant with them: thou louedst their bed where thou sawest it.

1611 marginal noteOr, hewed it for thy selfe larger then theirs.

1611 marginal noteOr, thou prouidedst roome.

Ezekiel 23:17
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 23:17 · retained source text

And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, and they defiled her with their whoredome, and shee was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. children of Babel.

1611 marginal noteHebr. loosed or disioynted.

Ezekiel 23:41
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 23:41 · retained source text

And satest vpon a stately bedde, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oile.

1611 marginal noteHeb. honourable.

1611 marginal noteProu.7.17

Ezekiel 32:25
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 32:25 · retained source text

They haue set her a bed in the midst of the slaine with all her multitudes: her graues are round about him, all of them vncircumcised, slaine by the sword: though their terrour was caused in the land of the liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that goe downe to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slaine.

Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Daniel 2:28 · retained source text

But there is a God in heauen that reuealeth secrets, and maketh knowen to the king Nebuchad-nezzar, what shalbe in the latter dayes. Thy dreame, and the visions of thy head vpon thy bed, are these.

1611 marginal noteCald. hath made knowen.

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