מוֹעֵד
môwʻêd · mo-ade'
properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally ayear; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מֹעֵד; or (feminine) מוֹעָדָה; (2 Chronicles 8:13), from H3259 (יָעַד);
properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally ayear; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
- properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season
- specifically, a festival
- conventionally ayear
- by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose)
- technically the congregation
- by extension, the place of meeting
- also, a signal (as appointed beforehand)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › to see and know › the doorway, the way in
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish that works to see and know of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מוֹעֵד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
223 occurrences · 223 OT · 0 NT · 70 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the congregation147 · 83%
- at the time appointed3 · 2%
- appointed3 · 2%
- these are the feasts2 · 1%
- in his appointed season2 · 1%
- and on the solemn feasts2 · 1%
- unto them, concerning the feasts1 · 1%
- thee, in the time1 · 1%
- thee, in the time appointed1 · 1%
- in his season1 · 1%
- in your set feasts1 · 1%
- and in your solemn days1 · 1%
- a set time1 · 1%
- even these are my feasts1 · 1%
- at his appointed season1 · 1%
- the feasts1 · 1%
- in their seasons1 · 1%
- it in his appointed season1 · 1%
- at the set time1 · 1%
- or in your solemn feasts1 · 1%
- in the congregation1 · 1%
- unto me in their due season1 · 1%
- unto thee at this set time1 · 1%
- at the season1 · 1%
- and for seasons1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.