KJV dictionary & concordance
Sheltered or hollow places used as lairs, dwellings, or hiding places.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Judges 6:2
Complete exact-word concordance
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
And the hand of Midian preuailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made them the dennes which are in the mountaines, and caues, & strong holds.
1611 marginal noteHeb. was strong.
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Then the beastes goe into dennes: and remaine in their places.
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?
The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
The sunne ariseth, they gather themselues together: and lay them downe in their dennes.
¶ Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
¶ Come with me from Lebanon ( my spouse,) with me from Lebanon: looke from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the Lions dennes, from the mountaines of the Leopards.
1611 marginal noteDeut.3.9.
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Because the palaces shall be forsaken, the multitude of the citie shall be left, the forts and towres shall be for dennes for euer, a ioy of wild asses, a pasture of flockes;
1611 marginal noteOr, clifts and watchtowers.
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses, and filled his holes with pray, and his dens with rauine.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Of whome the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dennes and caues of the earth.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chiefe captaines, and the mighty men, and euery bondman, and euery free man, hid themselues in the dennes, and in the rockes of the mountaines,
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