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Strong's #4571 - מָעַד
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- to slip, slide, totter, shake
- (Qal) to slip
- (Hiphil) to cause or make to shake or totter
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2346) dom (מאהד MAhD) AC: Slip CO: ? AB: ?: A slipping of the foot.
V) dom (מאהד MAhD) - Slip: KJV (6): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) slip, slide, shake - Strongs: H4571 (מָעַד)
of2) tdofm (מואהדת MWAhDT) - Lame: As a foot that has slipped and become lame. KJV (1): joint - Strongs: H4154 (מוּעֶדֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect 3 plural מָֽעֲדוּ 2 Samuel 22:37 = Psalm 18:37; Imperfect 3 feminine singular תִּמְעַד Psalm 37:31; אֶמְעָ֑ד Psalm 26:1; Participle plural construct מוֺעֲדֵי Job 12:5; — slip, subject feet, (figurative) 2 Samuel 22:37 = Psalm 18:37; Job 12:5; subject אֲשֻׁרָיו Psalm 37:31; compare Psalm 26:1.
Pu`al Participle מוּעָ֑דֶת ( = ׳מְמוּ Ges§ 53 s; or old
Qal Passive participle, — compare Ba NB 273; — but passive not needed here, read perhaps ׳מוֺ
Qal Participle active see Schw ZAW x, 1890,176); — ׳רֶגֶל מ Proverbs 25:19 (simile of untrustworthiness).
Hiph`il Perfect וְהִמְעַדְתָּ֫ (so read for HCT והעמדת, compare Sm Co Da Berthol) Ezekiel 29:7; cause to shake object כָּלמָֿתְנַיִם, i.e. make them totter; compare Imperative הַמְעַ֑ד (object id.) Psalm 69:24.
מָעַד to waver, to totter. Psalms 18:37, 26:1 37:31 Job 12:5, מוֹעֲדֵי רֶגֶל “whose foot tottereth.” Proverbs 25:19, רֶגֶל מוָּֽעדֶת “a tottering foot,” for מוֹעֶדֶת, וֹ shortened into וּ, compare Lehrg. p. 309. Others take מוּעֶדֶת as an abstr. noun, a tottering, of the form סוּגַר, עוּגָב, in fem.
Hiphil, to cause to totter, or shake, Psalms 69:24.