Reference: Lodge

See GARDEN.

a shed for a watchman in a garden (Isa 1:8). The Hebrew name melunah is rendered "cottage" (q.v.) in Isa 24:20. It also denotes a hammock or hanging-bed.

To pass the night (Hebrew luwn). Isa 10:29, the Assyrian invaders "have taken their lodging (their bivouac) at Geba." Song 7:11; Ne 4:22. The "lodge" (Isa 1:8), and "cottage" (Isa 24:20), "the earth shall reel to and fro ... and be removed as a cottage," refer to a temporary hut, or in the latter passage a hammock suspended from trees, to secure from wild beasts the watcher of gardens or lands in the night.