a place: a spot or area where something or someone is located, stays, or belongs.
This is the ordinary Hebrew word for a place, and it covers the whole range you would expect of such a word in English. It can be a named spot on the map, the patch of ground under your feet, the room left over in a house, the seat you sit in, or the home you return to. The thread running through all of it is simple: a portion of space that something fills or that is set aside for it.
Because the word is so plain, what it carries comes mostly from what it is attached to. A place can be made holy by who meets you there, as when Jacob wakes from his dream and calls the spot dreadful and the gate of heaven, or when God tells Moses the ground he stands on is holy. The same word names the single place God will later choose for worship in Deuteronomy, a phrase that becomes one of the most loaded uses in the Old Testament.
It also reaches into quieter human realities. Returning to one's place means going back home. Standing in someone's place means taking their position. And the place all people finally go, in Ecclesiastes, is the dust. So a word that begins as bare geography ends up touching belonging, worship, displacement, and death, simply by naming where a thing rightly is.