me.a.rah is an enclosed place used for refuge, dwelling, burial, concealment, and the image of a robbers’ den.

The term consistently denotes an enclosed location: people hide or take refuge there, individuals dwell or lodge there, and it can belong to a field as a burial place. Its construct use also frames the house called by the LORD’s name as a “den of robbers” in Jeremiah 7:11.

1. Enclosed place for shelter, dwelling, or burial · dominant

   In Joshua 10:16 the five kings hide in this location, and Joshua 10:18 speaks of its mouth being closed with large stones. In Genesis 19:30 Lot dwells there with his daughters, while Genesis 23:19 identifies it as the place where Sarah is buried; in Jeremiah 7:11 the construct form describes the house as a “den of robbers.”

   Joshua 10:16Joshua 10:18Genesis 19:30Genesis 23:191 Kings 18:4Jeremiah 7:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied narrative verses, the APB commonly presents the location as “cave,” including places of hiding, lodging, and burial. It renders Jeremiah 7:11 with “den of robbers”; the Psalm verses supplied do not explicitly reproduce the term in their translated text.