עָמַד

amad · stand

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5975 · appears 524 times in the Bible

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What it means

amad (עָמַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stand”.

Stay, remain, endure. "Stand before" someone is to serve him or be in his presence. In another form of the verb, set up, place, appoint.

How to say it

a·mad

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.
To halt, cease doing something.
To hold firm, without falling or coming to an end.
"Stand before" someone: to serve them.
To put in place, name to a post.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Stand; stay, stop, remain. BDB defines it as to stand, in many relations, literal and figurative. In the causative form, to set up, place, maintain. From this verb comes עַמּוּד, “pillar” (H5982).

To stand beside someone Genesis 18:8
To stop, to stand still Joshua 10:13
“Stand before” someone: to be in his service 1 Kings 17:1 Deuteronomy 10:8
To keep standing, to make last Exodus 9:16

Historical and cultural background

Deuteronomy 10:8 describes the office of the Levites with this verb: “to stand before YHWH to minister to him”.

How we translate it

“Stood” 147 times, “stand” 146, “standing” 74, “set” 29, “stopped” 13, “set up” 12, “appointed” 10. עָמַד לִפְנֵי is translated literally, “stand before”, with a note: it is the expression for one who serves a king or God (Elijah: “YHWH… before whom I stand”, 1 Kings 17:1).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

stood ×147
stand ×146
standing ×74
set ×29
stands ×20
stopped ×13
set up ×12
appointed ×10
stayed ×5
stop ×5
others ×63

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

Genesis 18:8
He took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
Genesis 18:22
The men turned from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before YHWH.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.”
Genesis 19:27
Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before YHWH.
Genesis 24:30
When he saw the ring and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man; and look, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Genesis 24:31
He said, “Come in, blessed of YHWH! Why do you stand outside? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Genesis 29:35
She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will give thanks to YHWH.” That is why she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, and she took Zilpah her slave woman and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 41:1
At the end of two full years, Pharaoh was dreaming, and look, he was standing by the Nile.
Genesis 41:3
And look, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly in appearance and thin in flesh, and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
Genesis 41:17
Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph: “In my dream, look, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;
Genesis 41:46
Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and passed through all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 43:15
The men took this gift, and they took double silver in their hand, and Benjamin; and they got up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could not control himself before all who stood by him, and he cried out, “Have everyone go out from me!” So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Genesis 45:9
Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: Elohim has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; do not delay.
Genesis 47:7
Then Joseph brought Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Exodus 3:5
He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Exodus 8:22
But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people live, so that there will be no swarms of flies there, that you may know that I am YHWH in the midst of the land.
Exodus 9:10
So they took the soot of the kiln and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils with blisters breaking out on people and on animals.
Exodus 9:11
The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have let you stand, in order to show you my power, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
Exodus 9:28
Pray to YHWH, for there has been enough of thunder of Elohim and hail; and I will let you go, and you will not have to stay any longer.”
Exodus 14:19
Then the angel of Elohim, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,
Exodus 17:6
Look, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 18:13
The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
Exodus 18:23
If you do this thing and Elohim so commands you, you will be able to endure, and also all this people will go to their place in peace.”
Exodus 20:18
All the people were seeing the thunders and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.
Exodus 20:21
The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the dense cloud where Elohim was.
Exodus 21:21
But if he survives a day or two days, he shall not be avenged, for he is his property.
Exodus 26:15
You shall make the boards for the dwelling of acacia wood, standing upright.
Exodus 32:26
And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is for YHWH, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.
Exodus 33:9
And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and he would speak with Moses.
Exodus 33:10
And all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, and all the people would rise and bow down, each man at the entrance of his tent.
Exodus 36:20
And he made the boards for the dwelling of acacia wood, standing upright.
Leviticus 9:5
They brought what Moses had commanded before the tent of meeting, and all the community drew near and stood before YHWH.
Leviticus 13:5
The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if the sore has stayed as it was in his eyes and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall isolate him seven days a second time.
Leviticus 13:23
But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread, it is the scar of the ulcer, and the priest shall declare him clean.
Leviticus 13:28
But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin but it has faded, it is the swelling of the burn, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.
Leviticus 13:37
But if in his eyes the ringworm has stayed as it was and black hair has grown in it, the ringworm has healed; he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.
Leviticus 14:11
The priest who performs the purification shall set the man who is being purified, and them, before YHWH, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

And 484 more times.