מָעַדmâʻad
slip, slide, totter, shake
Pronunciation: maw-ad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4571
Meanings
Qal: slip (2 Samuel 22:37; Psalms 18:37; Psalms 37:31)
Pu`al: or old Qal Passive participle (Proverbs 25:19)
Hiph`il: cause to shake, i.e. make them totter (Ezekiel 29:7; Psalms 69:24)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 22:37 You have made a wide path for my feet to keep them from slipping.
- Job 12:5 People who are at ease mock those in trouble. They give a push to people who are stumbling.
- Psalms 18:36 You have made a wide path for my feet to keep them from slipping.
- Psalms 26:1 Declare me innocent, O Lord, for I have acted with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
- Psalms 37:31 They have made God’s law their own, so they will never slip from his path.
- Psalms 69:23 Let their eyes go blind so they cannot see, and make their bodies shake continually.
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).