Dict: smith - BED

smith:

BED - B>@ - The Jewish bed consisted of the mattress, a mere mat, or one or more quilts; the covering, a finer quilt, or sometimes the outer garment worn by day, ( kjv@1Samuel:19:13) which the law provided should not be kept in pledge after sunset, that the poor man might not lack his needful covering, (24:13) the pillow, ( kjv@1Samuel:19:13) probably formed of sheep’s fleece or goat’s skin with a stuffing of cotton, etc.; the bedstead, a divan or bench along the side or end of the room, sufficing at a support for the bedding. Besides we have bedsteads made of ivory, wood, etc. referred to in (3:11; kjv@Amos:6:4) The ornamental portions were pillars and a canopy, Judith 13:9, ivory carvings, gold and silver, and probably mosaic work, purple and fine linen. kjv@Esther:1:6; Solomon kjv@3:9-10) The ordinary furniture of a bedchamber in private life is given in ( kjv@2Kings:4:10)

BEDAD - B>@ - (solitary), the father of Hadad king of Edom. kjv@Genesis:36:35; kjv@1Chronicles:1:46) (B.C. before 1093.)

BEDAN - B>@ - (son of judgement). Mentioned in ( kjv@1Samuel:12:11) as a judge of Israel between Jerubbaal (Gideon) and Jephthah. The Chaldee Paraphrase reads Samson for Bedan; the LXX., Syriac and Arabic all have Barak. Ewald suggests that it may be a false reading for Abdon. (B.C. about 1150.) The son of Gilead. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:17)

BEDEIAH - B>@ - one of the sons of Bani, in the time of Ezra, who had taken a foreign wife. kjv@Ezra:10:35) (B.C. 458.)