imad · with me

What it means

imad (עִמָּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “with me”.

Beside me.

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. With me, beside me.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

With me, beside me: a preposition with the first-person pronoun, a poetic or emphatic form of ‘with’, almost only in Genesis and Job.

• Being with someone: God with me Genesis 28:20Genesis 31:5Psalms 23:4
• Showing loyal love to me Genesis 21:23Genesis 40:14Genesis 47:29
• “There is no god with me” Deuteronomy 32:39
• “Resident aliens … with me”: the land is YHWH’s Leviticus 25:23
• Job remembers when Shaddai was with him Job 29:5

How we translate it

“With me” in most cases. In the phrases of loyal love English says “deal with me in loyal love and faithfulness” (Genesis 47:29) or “show … loyal love to me” (Genesis 40:14). Other passages ask for another form: “beside me” (Job 29:6), “earnestly asked of me” (1 Samuel 20:28).

How it is translated

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

• me ×43
• myself ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×14
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• Job×14
• Psalms×4

• Genesis 3:12

  And the man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”

• Genesis 19:19

  Look, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have made great your loyal love that you have shown me by keeping me alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me and I die.

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Deeds that ought not to be done you have done to me.”

• Genesis 20:13

  And when Elohim caused me to wander from the house of my father, I said to her, ‘This is the loyal love that you shall show me: in every place that we come to, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

• Genesis 21:23

  So now, swear to me here by Elohim that you will not deal falsely with me or with my children or with my descendants. As the loyal love that I have shown you, so you will show me and the land in which you have resided as an alien.”

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob made a vow, saying, “If Elohim is with me and keeps me on this way that I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I give her to another man; stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:27

  Complete the week of this one, and we will give you that one too, for the service that you will serve with me yet another seven years.”

• Genesis 31:5

  He said to them, “I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before; but the Elohim of my father has been with me.

• Genesis 31:7

  Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do harm to me.

• Genesis 31:32

  Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our brothers, recognize for yourself what of yours is with me and take it for yourself.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

• Genesis 35:3

  Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to El who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me on the way that I have gone.”

• Genesis 40:14

  But think of me when it goes well with you, and show, please, loyal love to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house.

• Genesis 47:29

  The days of Israel drew near to die, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal with me in loyal love and faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt.

• Exodus 17:2

  The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test YHWH?”

• Leviticus 25:23

  And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are resident aliens and temporary residents with me.

• Deuteronomy 5:31

  But you, stand here with me, and I will speak to you the whole commandment, the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, so that they may carry them out in the land that I am giving them to take possession of it.”

• Deuteronomy 32:34

  ‘Is not this laid up with me, sealed in my treasuries?

• Deuteronomy 32:39

  See now that I, I am he, and there is no god with me. I put to death and I make alive; I have crushed and I will heal, and there is no one who delivers from my hand.

• Judges 17:10

  And Micah said to him, “Stay with me and be for me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year, and a set of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went.

• 1 Samuel 10:2

  When you go from me today, you will find two men by the tomb of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to look for have been found, and look, your father has given up the matter of the donkeys and is worried about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

• 1 Samuel 20:14

  And if I am still alive, will you not show me the loyal love of YHWH, so that I do not die?

• 1 Samuel 20:28

  Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked of me to go as far as Bethlehem.

• 1 Samuel 22:23

  Stay with me; do not be afraid, for whoever seeks my life seeks your life; for you are under guard with me.”

• 2 Samuel 10:2

  David said, “I will do loyal love with Hanun son of Nahash, as his father did loyal love with me.” So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came into the land of the sons of Ammon,

• 2 Samuel 19:33

  The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”

• Job 6:4

  For the arrows of Shaddai are with me, whose venom my spirit drinks; the terrors of Eloah are arrayed against me.

• Job 9:35

  I would speak and not fear him, for I am not so with myself.

• Job 10:12

  Life and loyal love you have shown me, and your care has kept my spirit.

• Job 10:17

  You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation with me; relays and an army are against me.

• Job 13:19

  Who is he who will contend with me? For now I would be silent and expire.

• Job 13:20

  Only two things do not do to me, then from your face I will not hide myself:

• Job 17:2

  Surely there are mockeries with me, and on their provocations my eye spends the night.

• Job 23:6

  Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No; surely he would pay attention to me.

• Job 23:10

  For he knows the way that is with me; he has tested me: like gold I will come forth.

• Job 28:14

  The deep says, ‘It is not in me’; and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

• Job 29:5

  when Shaddai was still with me, and around me my young men;

• Job 29:6

  when my steps were washed in curds, and the rock poured out beside me streams of oil.

• Job 29:20

  My honor is new with me, and my bow in my hand is renewed.’

• Job 31:13

  If I despised the right of my male slave or my female slave in their case with me,

And 4 more times.