H4571 - מָעַד (mâʻad)

H4571 מָעַד (mâʻad) maw-ad'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to waver

KJV Usage: make to shake, slide, slip

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מָעַד (ma.ad) — to slip. 1) to slip, slide, totter, shake 1a) (Qal) to slip 1b) (Hiphil) to cause or make to shake or totter

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מעד (H4154 · H4571)

verb

Unsteady | verb hif

to make (someone's) loins shake = causative action by which deities cause the loins of humans shake

PSA 69:24 · EZK 29:7

Unsteady | verb qal.pass

(one's feet) slip literally: (one's) foot falters; hence: = process by which humans lose their footing when walking

PRO 25:19

Fail | verb qal

(one's feet) falter, to fail literally: (one's feet or steps) slip; hence: = process by which one's journey through life does not go as intended or expected

2SA 22:37 · JOB 12:5 · PSA 18:37 · PSA 26:1 · PSA 37:31

¹ EZK 29:7 RSV ESV "made to shake" NIV "were wrenched" NJPS "make unsteady" NRSV "made unsteady" NJB "making give way" REB "gave way" | MT העמדת = עמד

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מָעַד] vb. slip, slide, totter, shake (only Heb.);— Qal slip

Pu. pass. not needed here

Hiph. cause to shake, i.e. make them totter

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