עָמַד

a.mad · to stand: stand

Hebrew · Strong's H5975 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-mad' · 521 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to stand: stand H5975G 452
  • to stand: appoint H5975H · a Meaning of 40
  • to stand: rise H5975I · a Meaning of 24
  • to stand: put H5975J · a Meaning of 5

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive); abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, [phrase] serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עָמַד 620 take one's stand, stand
Qal 435
1.
a. take one's stand, and (esp. pt.) stand, be in a standing attitude
b. stand forth
c. take a stand against, in opposition to
d. present oneself before
e. attend upon, be(come) servant of
f. stand afar
g. stand (silent)
h. stand (appealingly)
i. stand, subj. רֶגֶל
j. stand, of water
2.
a. stand still, stop, cease moving
b. = be inactive
c. = be attentive
d. stop, cease doing a thing
3.
a. tarry, delay
b. remain
c. continue, abide
d. endure
e. be steadfast
f. persist
4. make a stand, hold one's ground
5. stand upright
6.
a. arise, appear, come on the scene
b. stand forth, appear = come into being
c. rise up as foe
7. rare usages
Hiph. 83
1. station, set
2. cause to stand firm
3. cause to stand up, set up, erect
4. present one before king
5. appoint
6. other meanings
Hoph. be presented

Every occurrence

  1. Ezekiel 21:21 עָמַ֨ד 'a.Mad · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

  2. Ezekiel 22:14 הֲיַעֲמֹ֤ד ha.ya.'a.Mod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.

  3. Ezekiel 22:30 וְעֹמֵ֨ד ve.'o.Med · An -ing word: simple action

    And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

  4. Ezekiel 24:11 וְהַעֲמִידֶ֥הָ ve.ha.'a.mi.De.ha · A command to you: causing it

    Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.

  5. Ezekiel 27:29 יַעֲמֹֽדוּ׃ ya.'a.Mo.du · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And all that handled the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,

  6. Ezekiel 31:14 יַעַמְד֧וּ ya.'am.Du · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

  7. Ezekiel 33:26 עֲמַדְתֶּ֤ם 'a.mad.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

  8. Ezekiel 37:10 וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ vai.ya.'am.Du · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

  9. Ezekiel 40:3 עֹמֵ֖ד 'o.Med · An -ing word: simple action

    And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

  10. Ezekiel 43:6 עֹמֵ֖ד 'o.Med · An -ing word: simple action

    And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

  11. Ezekiel 44:11 יַעַמְד֥וּ ya.'am.Du · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

  12. Ezekiel 44:15 וְעָמְד֣וּ ve.'a.me.Du · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me; and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord Jehovah:

  13. Ezekiel 44:24 יַעַמְד֣וּ ya.'am.Du · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

  14. Ezekiel 46:2 וְעָמַד֙ ve.'a.Mad · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

  15. Ezekiel 47:10 עָמְד֨וּ ya.'am.du · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

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