# H4296 מִטָּה

מִטָּה (miṭṭâh), Strong’s H4296: a bed (as extended) forsleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier KJV: bed(-chamber), bier.. Occurs 29 times.

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*miṭṭâh* — a bed (as extended) forsleeping or eating; by analogy, a sofa, litter or bier

KJV: bed(-chamber), bier.

Derived from [נָטָה nâṭâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H5186) (to stretch or spread out)

Occurs 29 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מִטָּה n.f. couch, bed (place of reclining)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 47:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=31) — Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
- [Genesis 48:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=2) — Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the…
- [Genesis 49:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=33) — When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered…
- [Exodus 7:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=28) — The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and…
- [1 Samuel 19:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=13) — Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with…
- [1 Samuel 19:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=15) — Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
- [1 Samuel 19:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=16) — When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
- [1 Samuel 28:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/28?v=23) — But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened…
- [2 Samuel 3:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=31) — David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth…
- [2 Samuel 4:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/4?v=7) — Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and…