מָעַד
maad · slip, waver
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4571 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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maad (מָעַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slip, waver”.
To slip, to waver, to stagger. Said of feet or ankles that do not hold.
How to say it
ma·ad
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 lose one's footing and fall or totter; also, to make someone tremble.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- slip ×5
- make shake ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 22:37
You widen my step beneath me, and my ankles do not slip.
- Job 12:5
A torch of contempt in the thought of the untroubled, ready for those who slip with the foot.
- Psalms 18:36
You widen my step beneath me, and my ankles do not slip.
- Psalms 26:1
Of David. Judge me, YHWH, for I in my integrity have walked, and in YHWH I have trusted; I will not slip.
- Psalms 37:31
The instruction of his Elohim is in his heart; his steps will not slip.
- Psalms 69:23
Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their loins make shake continually.