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Strong's #4296 - מִטָּה
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1308) un (נתה NTh) AC: Spread CO: Squash AB: ?: The pictograph n is a picture of a seed, the u is a picture of a basket. Combined these mean "seed basket". Squash seeds were planted along the routes of the travelers and nomads for future use by themselves and other travelers. The squash plant spreads out over a large area forming varied sizes and shapes of squash fruit. Dried squash fruit becomes a hard hollow shell (באסכת basket) with the seeds inside and when shaken they rattle inside.
A) un (נתה NTh) AC: Spread CO: Bed AB: ?: As spread out on the floor.
hf1) eunm (מנתהה MNThH) - Bed: A spread out sheet for sleeping. [df: hjm] KJV (29): bed, bier - Strongs: H4296 (מִטָּה)
adf1 ) eufnm (מנותהה MNWThH) - Spreading: [df: hjm] KJV (1): stretching - Strongs: H4298 (מֻטָּה)
H) eun (נתהה NThH) AC: Spread CO: ? AB: ?: The spreading growth of the squash plant.
V) eun (נתהה NThH) - Spread: To stretch something out. KJV (215): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) stretch, incline, turn, bow, decline, pitch, spread - Strongs: H5186 (נָטָה)
am) eunm (מנתהה MNThH) - Beneath: As under a stretched out sheet. [df: hjm] KJV (19): beneath, downward, underneath, low, under, less, down - Strongs: H4295 (מַטָּה)
J) ufn (נותה NWTh) AC: Shake CO: ? AB: ?: The dried squash fruit rattle.
V) ufn (נותה NWTh) - Shake: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) move - Strongs: H5120 (נוּט)
af1) eufnm (מנותהה MNWThH) - Perverseness: As a shaking. [df: hjm] KJV (1): perverseness - Strongs: H4297 (מֻטֶּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
מִטָּה f. (from the root נָטָה, like the Gr. κλίνη, from κλίνω).
(1) a bed
(a) for sleeping or sickness, Genesis 47:31, 48:2 49:33 Ex. 7:28.
(b) such as a person lay on at table, Esther 1:6; Ezekiel 23:41.
(c) on which one takes a little rest (sofa), Amos 3:12, 6:4.
(2) a litter, Song of Solomon 3:7.
(3) a bier, a litter on which the dead were carried, 2 Samuel 3:31.