tseda · provisions

What it means

tseda (צֵידָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “provisions”.

For a journey.

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. Food for the journey.
2. Meat from hunting.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• provisions ×8
• provision ×2
• game ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Joshua×3
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1

• Genesis 27:3

  So now, take, please, your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,

• Genesis 42:25

  Joseph gave orders to fill their containers with grain, and to return their silver, each into his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And so it was done for them.

• Genesis 45:21

  The sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them carts according to the command of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

• Exodus 12:39

  They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread, for it was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

• Joshua 1:11

  “Pass through the middle of the camp and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you are crossing this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you to possess it.’”

• Joshua 9:5

  and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out cloaks on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and crumbled.

• Joshua 9:11

  So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land said to us, ‘Take provision in your hand for the journey and go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; now make a covenant with us.”’

• Judges 7:8

  They took the provisions of the people in their hand, and their horns; and all the men of Israel he sent away, each to his tents, but he retained the three hundred men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

• Judges 20:10

  And we will take ten men of a hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to take provisions for the people, so that they may act, when they come to Geba of Benjamin, according to all the infamy that it has done in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 22:10

  He inquired of YHWH for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

• Psalms 78:25

  The bread of the strong each one ate; provisions he sent them to the full.