Bed

"(Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15, 16," "etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31; 48:2; 49:33, etc.); as a" sofa for rest (1 Sam. 28:23; Amos 3:12). Another Hebrew word "(er'es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed with" "curtains (Deut. 3:11; Ps. 132:3), for sickness (Ps. 6:6; 41:3)." "In the New Testament it denotes sometimes a litter with a "coverlet (Matt. 9:2, 6; Luke 5:18; Acts 5:15)." "The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or platform "along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight portable" "frame, sometimes only a mat or one or more quilts. The only" material for bed-clothes is mentioned in 1 Sam. 19:13. Sleeping "in the open air was not uncommon, the sleeper wrapping himself" "in his outer garment (Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13)."

One of the judges of Israel (1 Sam. 12:11). It is uncertain who "he was. Some suppose that Barak is meant, others Samson, but" most probably this is a contracted form of Abdon (Judg. 12:13).

"An apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly" elevated platform at the upper end and sometimes along the "sides, on which were laid mattresses. This was the general" arrangement of the public sleeping-room for the males of the "family and for guests, but there were usually besides distinct" bed-chambers of a more private character (2 Kings 4:10; Ex. 8:3; "2 Kings 6:12). In 2 Kings 11:2 this word denotes, as in the" "margin of the Revised Version, a store-room in which mattresses" were kept.

"Used in Deut. 3:11, but elsewhere rendered "couch," "bed." In 2" "Kings 1:4; 16:2; Ps. 132:3; Amos 3:12, the divan is meant by" this word.