עֵד
ʻêd · ayd
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
Lexicon
Derivation: contracted from H5749 (עוּד);
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
- concretely, a witness
- abstractly, testimony
- specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: witness.
Letters
- 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 see and know › the doorway, the way in
To see and know of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵד 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
70 occurrences · 70 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- witness21 · 34%
- witnesses10 · 16%
- is witness3 · 5%
- ye are witnesses3 · 5%
- be witness2 · 3%
- of the witnesses2 · 3%
- we are witnesses2 · 3%
- i and thou; and let it be for a witness1 · 2%
- is a witness1 · 2%
- it for witness1 · 2%
- and is a witness1 · 2%
- and there be no witness1 · 2%
- of witnesses1 · 2%
- and, behold, if the witness1 · 2%
- may be a witness1 · 2%
- them as a witness1 · 2%
- that it may be there for a witness1 · 2%
- but that it may be a witness1 · 2%
- but it is a witness1 · 2%
- ed: for it shall be a witness1 · 2%
- he is witness1 · 2%
- thy witnesses1 · 2%
- which is a witness1 · 2%
- also now, behold, my witness1 · 2%
- be not a witness1 · 2%
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.