Strong's Hebrew · H4583

H4583 mâʻôwn

מָעוֹן

maw-ohn'

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

When mâʻôwn is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

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

Derivation

or מָעִין; (1 Chronicles 4:41), from the same as H5772 (עוֹנָה);

Appears 18 times in Scripture

1 Samuel 2:29

Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

Psalms 71:3

Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

Psalms 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

Psalms 90:1

Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”

1 Samuel 2:32

You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

Psalms 26:8

O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

2 Chronicles 30:27

Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.

2 Chronicles 36:15

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

Psalms 91:9

Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—

When mâʻôwn is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what mâʻôwn means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like 1 Samuel 2:29 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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