אֵידʼêyd
distress, calamity
Pronunciation: ade · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H343
Meanings
1. national calamity (Jeremiah 18:17; Ezekiel 35:5; Obadiah 1:13)
2. of righteous sufferer (2 Samuel 22:19; Psalms 18:19; Job 31:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 24 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:35 I will take revenge; I will pay them back. In due time their feet will slip. Their day of disaster will arrive, and their destiny will overtake them.’
- 2 Samuel 22:19 They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress, but the Lord supported me.
- Job 18:12 Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
- Job 21:17 “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished. Do they ever have trouble? Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
- Job 21:30 Evil people are spared in times of calamity and are allowed to escape disaster.
- Job 30:12 These outcasts oppose me to my face. They send me sprawling and lay traps in my path.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).