# H4583 מָעוֹן

מָעוֹן (mâʻôwn), Strong’s H4583: an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum) KJV: den, dwelling((-) place), habitation…

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*mâʻôwn* — an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)

KJV: den, dwelling((-) place), habitation.

Derived from [עוֹנָה ʻôwnâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H5772) (sexual)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָעוֹן n.[m.] dwelling, habitation

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 26:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=15) — Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us…
- [1 Samuel 2:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=29) — Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above…
- [1 Samuel 2:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=32) — You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man…
- [Jeremiah 9:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/9?v=10) — “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without…
- [Jeremiah 10:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/10?v=22) — The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a…
- [Jeremiah 25:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/25?v=30) — “Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “‘The LORD will roar from on high, and utter his voice…
- [Jeremiah 49:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/49?v=33) — Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man…
- [Jeremiah 51:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=37) — Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- [Nahum 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/2?v=12) — Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the…
- [Zechariah 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/2?v=17) — Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”