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# מָעַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4571

**slip** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

slip [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4571/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָֽעַד: vb. slip, slide, totter, shake Qal Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4571/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. slip, slide, totter, shake (only Heb.);— Pf. 3 pl. מָֽעֲדוּ 2 S 22:37=ψ 18:37; Impf. 3 fs. תִּמְעַד ψ 37:31; אֶמְעָ֑ד ψ 26:1; Pt. pl. cstr. מוֹעֲדֵי Jb 12:5;—slip, subj. feet, (fig.) 2 S 22:37=ψ 18:37, Jb 12:5; subj. אֲשֻׁרָיו ψ 37:31; cf. ψ 26:1. Pt. מוּעָ֑דֶת (=מְמוּ׳ Ges§ 53 s; or old Qal Pt. pass.,—cf. BaNB 273;—but pass. not needed here, read perhaps מוֹ׳ Qal Pt. act. v. SchwallyZAW x, 1890, 176);—רֶגֶל מ׳ Pr 25:19 (sim. of untrustworthiness). Pf. וְהִמְעַדְתָּ֫ (so read for ℌ והעמדת, cf. Sm Co Da Berthol) Ez 29:7; cause to shake obj. כָּל־מָתְנַיִם, i.e. make them totter; cf. Imv. דַמְעַ֑ד (obj. id.) ψ 69:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they slip (2); I will slip (1); \[those who are\] slipping (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.37/#tree)

תַּרְחִ֥יב צַעֲדִ֖י תַּחְתֵּ֑נִי וְלֹ֥א מָעֲד֖וּ קַרְסֻלָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* you.enlarge step\[s\] my under me and not they.slip ankles my

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.

[Psalms 18:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.37/#tree)

תַּרְחִ֣יב צַעֲדִ֣י תַחְתָּ֑י וְלֹ֥א מָ֝עֲד֗וּ קַרְסֻלָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* you.enlarge step\[s\] my under me and not they.slip ankles my

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4571.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4571/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).