saad · sustain, strengthen

What it means

saad (סָעַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sustain, strengthen”.

"Sustain the heart" is to refresh oneself by eating.

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. To strengthen; "revive the heart" is to eat something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Sustain ×3
• refresh ×2
• sustains ×2
• Support me ×1
• he upholds ×1
• upheld me ×1
• uphold it ×1
• will support him ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 18:5

  And I will bring a morsel of bread, and refresh your hearts; after that you may go on, since that is why you have come by your servant.” They said, “Do so, as you have said.”

• Judges 19:5

  And it happened on the fourth day that they rose early in the morning, and he arose to go; but the father of the young woman said to his son-in-law, “Sustain your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you may go.”

• Judges 19:8

  On the fifth day he rose early in the morning to go, and the father of the young woman said, “Sustain, please, your heart, and linger until the day declines.” So the two of them ate.

• 1 Kings 13:7

  The king spoke to the man of Elohim, “Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, and I will give you a gift.”

• Psalms 18:35

  You have given me the shield of your salvation; your right hand sustains me, and your humility makes me great.

• Psalms 20:2

  May he send your help from the holy place, and from Zion may he sustain you.

• Psalms 41:3

  YHWH will support him on the couch of illness; all his bed you have changed in his sickness.

• Psalms 94:18

  When I said, “My foot slips,” your loyal love, YHWH, upheld me.

• Psalms 104:15

  and wine gladdens the heart of mortal man, to make the face shine with oil, and bread sustains the heart of mortal man.

• Psalms 119:117

  Support me, and I will be saved, and I will have regard for your statutes continually.

• Proverbs 20:28

  Loyal love and faithfulness guard a king, and by loyal love he upholds his throne.

• Isaiah 9:7

  Of the increase of the dominion and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from now and forever. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.