Lexicon :: Strong's H4496 - mᵊnûḥâ

“When he saw that the resting place was good

And that the land was pleasant,

He bowed his shoulder to bear [burdens],

And became a servant at forced labor.

So they set out from the mountain of the LORD (Sinai) three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went in front of them during the three days’ journey to seek out a resting place for them.

“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, in accordance with everything that He promised. Not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He spoke through Moses His servant.

He lets me lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still and quiet waters.

“Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath,

‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’”

Return to your rest, O my soul,

For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place,

You and the ark [the symbol] of Your strength.

“This is My resting place forever” [says the LORD];

“Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

Then in that day

The nations will make supplications to the Root of Jesse

Who will stand as a signal for the peoples;

And His resting place will be glorious.

He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,”

And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen.

Then my people will live in a peaceful surrounding,

And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places.

This is what the LORD says,

“Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool.

Where, then, is a house that you could build for Me?

And where will My resting place be?

The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now this Seraiah was chief chamberlain or quartermaster [and brother of Baruch].

“Arise and depart [because the captivity is inevitable],

For this [land] is not the place of rest

Because of the defilement that brings destruction,

A painful and terrible destruction.

The [fn]oracle (a burdensome message) of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach [in Syria], with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the LORD),