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Bier

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: B By: George A. Morrish

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A light frame or couch on which the dead could be carried (2 Sam. 3:31³¹And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier. (2 Samuel 3:31); Luke 7:14¹⁴And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. (Luke 7:14)). The Hebrew word mittah is often translated “bed.”

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