סָעַד
çâʻad · saw-ad'
to suport (mostly figurative)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to suport (mostly figurative)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: comfort, establish, hold up, refresh self, strengthen, be upholden.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- 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)
to support and uphold › to see and know › the doorway, the way in
To support and uphold that works to see and know of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סָעַד 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
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- comfort2 · 17%
- and comfort ye1 · 8%
- with me, and refresh1 · 8%
- hath holden me up1 · 8%
- and strengthen1 · 8%
- will strengthen1 · 8%
- held me up1 · 8%
- which strengtheneth1 · 8%
- hold thou me up1 · 8%
- is upholden1 · 8%
- it, and to establish1 · 8%
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.