mishena · staff

What it means

mishena (מִשְׁעֵנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “staff”.

On which one leans; figuratively, support.

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. A stick one carries in the hand to lean on while walking.
2. Whatever supports a people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• staff ×10
• prop ×1
• staffs ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×4
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 21:19

  if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, the one who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his lost time and have him thoroughly healed.

• Numbers 21:18

  The well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the scepter, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,

• Judges 6:21

  The angel of YHWH reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the angel of YHWH went from his sight.

• 2 Kings 4:29

  He said to Gehazi, “Gird your waist, take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not bless him; and if anyone blesses you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the boy.”

• 2 Kings 4:31

  Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the face of the boy, but there was no sound and no response. He went back to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.”

• 2 Kings 18:21

  Now, look, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans, and it goes into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• Psalms 23:4

  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

• Isaiah 3:1

  For look, the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah support and prop, all support of bread and all support of water;

• Isaiah 36:6

  Look, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans, and it goes into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• Ezekiel 29:6

  And all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am YHWH, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

• Zechariah 8:4

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Old men and old women will again sit in the squares of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand because of the great number of his days.

And 1 more times.