עוּד
ʻûwd · ood
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
- to duplicate or repeat
- by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration)
- intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 see and know › to fasten and establish › the doorway, the way in
To see and know that works to fasten and establish of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עוּד 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
44 occurrences · 44 OT · 0 NT · 38 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to record3 · 10%
- i call2 · 6%
- and i will testify2 · 6%
- protested2 · 6%
- what thing shall i take to witness2 · 6%
- did solemnly1 · 3%
- protest1 · 3%
- charge1 · 3%
- for thou chargedst1 · 3%
- and it hath been testified1 · 3%
- to witness1 · 3%
- them, i testify1 · 3%
- and call1 · 3%
- which i testify1 · 3%
- yet protest1 · 3%
- solemnly1 · 3%
- and protested1 · 3%
- before him, to bear witness1 · 3%
- witnessed1 · 3%
- testified1 · 3%
- which he testified1 · 3%
- and they testified1 · 3%
- which testified1 · 3%
- and testifiedst1 · 3%
- them, and testifiedst1 · 3%
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.