maamad · station, position

What it means

maamad (מַעֲמָד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “station, position”.

Station: the place or post someone holds when he stands to serve before another.

How to say it

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

1. The place or office of one who stands to serve.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• post ×2
• station ×2
• office ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Isaiah×1

• 1 Kings 10:5

  and the food of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the station of his attendants and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his burnt offering that he offered at the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• 1 Chronicles 23:28

  For their post was at the side of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of YHWH, over the courts and over the chambers, and over the purification of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of Elohim,

• 2 Chronicles 9:4

  the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the station of his attendants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• 2 Chronicles 35:15

  The singers, the sons of Asaph, were at their post, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the seer of the king; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. There was no need for them to turn away from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

• Isaiah 22:19

  And I will thrust you from your position, and from your office he will pull you down.