סוֹד
çôwd · sode
a session, i.e. company of persons (in close deliberation); by implication, intimacy, consultation, a secret
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3245 (יָסַד);
a session, i.e. company of persons (in close deliberation); by implication, intimacy, consultation, a secret
- a session, i.e. company of persons (in close deliberation)
- by implication, intimacy, consultation, a secret
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: assembly, consel, inward, secret (counsel).
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- 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)
to support and uphold › to fasten and establish › the doorway, the way in
To support and uphold that works to fasten and establish of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סוֹד 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
21 occurrences · 21 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the secret2 · 10%
- counsel2 · 10%
- in the assembly2 · 10%
- secrets2 · 10%
- not thou into their secret1 · 5%
- all my inward1 · 5%
- when the secret1 · 5%
- me from the secret counsel1 · 5%
- but his secret1 · 5%
- without counsel1 · 5%
- not a secret1 · 5%
- and upon the assembly1 · 5%
- not in the assembly1 · 5%
- in the counsel1 · 5%
- in my counsel1 · 5%
- they shall not be in the assembly1 · 5%
- his secret1 · 5%
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.