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# עֶרֶשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6210

**couch** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

couch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6210/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶ֫רֶשׂ: n.f. couch, divan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6210/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Jb 7:13 couch, divan;—cstr. ע׳ Dt 3:11 +; abs. עָ֑רֶשׂ Am 3:12; sf. עַרְשִׂי Jb 7:13 +, etc.; pl. sf. עַרְשׂוֹתָם Am 6:4;—couch, divan, Am 3:12; 6:4 (‖ מִטּוֹת), + 2 S 17:28 (read עַרְשׂת מִשְׁכָּב Klo NeMarg. 18 HPS, cf. 𝔊); for lying at night Jb 7:13 ψ 6:7 (‖ מִטָּה), Pr 7:16, עֶרֶשׂ יְצוּעָ֑י ψ 132:3 the couch of (consisting in) my bed; couch of sickness ψ 41:4; marriage couch Ct 1:16; perhaps transf. to sarcophagus, as last couch עַרְשׂוֹ עֶרֶשׂ בַּרְזֶל Dt 3:11 (v. Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: couch (4); \[was\] a sarcophagus (1); a couch (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.16/#tree)

מַ֭רְבַדִּים רָבַ֣דְתִּי עַרְשִׂ֑י חֲ֝טֻב֗וֹת אֵט֥וּן מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* coverings I.have.spread couch my colored.fabrics linen of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

[Song of Songs 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.16/#tree)

הִנְּךָ֨יָפֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ אַ֣ף נָעִ֔ים אַף־עַרְשֵׂ֖נוּ רַעֲנָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* here you \[are\].beautiful my.lover my also pleasant also couch our \[is\].luxuriant

*JPS 1917:* Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6210.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6210/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).