omed · place, post

What it means

omed (עֹמֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “place, post”.

Post: the fixed place where someone is to stand to do his service.

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 fixed spot where one stands to serve.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• place ×3
• post ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×3

• 2 Chronicles 30:16

  They stood at their post according to their rule, according to the law of Moses the man of Elohim; the priests were splashing the blood received from the hand of the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 34:31

  The king stood at his post and made the covenant before YHWH, to walk after YHWH and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that are written in this book.

• 2 Chronicles 35:10

  So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their post, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the commandment of the king.

• Nehemiah 8:7

  And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were making the people understand the law, and the people were in their place.

• Nehemiah 9:3

  And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of YHWH their Elohim a fourth of the day, and for another fourth they were confessing and prostrating themselves before YHWH their Elohim.

• Nehemiah 13:11

  So I contended with the officials and said, “Why is the house of Elohim abandoned?” And I gathered them and set them in their place.