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Litter or bed upon which a body was placed before burial. They were portable (2 Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:14 ). Biers in biblical times have been compared to the wooden boards used in Muslim funerals to carry bodies today. Asa's bier was of a more elaborate type of burial couch that was probably placed in the tomb. The Hebrew word for bier (mitta) is the normal word for bed and is translated bier only when referring to burials.

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These dictionary topics are from the Holman Bible Dictionary, published by Broadman & Holman, 1991. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Broadman & Holman.
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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Bier'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hbd/​b/bier.html. 1991.
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