Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
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Staff
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Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
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Genesis
33 verses
Exodus
22 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
22 verses
Judges
11 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
2 Samuel
44 verses
2 Kings
43 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Isaiah
99 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
44 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Zechariah
33 verses
Mark
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh · mat-teh'
15 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences
a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread)
Strong's KJV usage: rod, staff, tribe.
Strong's first: Genesis 38:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 14:13
Open full H4294 profile →מִשְׁעֵנָה
mishʻênâh · mish-ay-naw'
11 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick
Strong's KJV usage: staff.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:19Strong's last: Zechariah 8:4
Open full H4938 profile →מַקֵּל
maqqêl · mak-kale
7 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
Strong's KJV usage: rod, (hand-)staff.
Strong's first: Genesis 32:10Strong's last: Zechariah 11:14
Open full H4731 profile →עֵץ
ʻêts · ates
4 times translated as this KJV form326 total Strong's occurrences
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
Strong's KJV usage: carpenter, gallows, helve, pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:7Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 20:5
Open full H6086 profile →ῥάβδος
rhábdos · hrab'-dos
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a stick or wand (as a cudgel, a cane or a baton of royalty)
Strong's KJV usage: :--rod, sceptre, staff.
Strong's first: Mark 6:8Strong's last: Hebrews 11:21
Open full G4464 profile →שֵׁבֶט
shêbeṭ · shay'-bet
2 times translated as this KJV form189 total Strong's occurrences
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
Strong's KJV usage: × correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 23:21Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 11:23
Open full H7626 profile →מוֹט
môwṭ · mote
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a wavering, i.e. fall; by implication, a pole (as shaking); hence, a yoke (as essentially a bent pole)
Strong's KJV usage: bar, be moved, staff, yoke.
Strong's first: Numbers 13:23Strong's last: Numbers 13:23
Open full H4132 profile →פֶּלֶךְ
pelek · peh'-lek
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
a circuit (i.e. district); also a spindle (as whirled); hence, a crutch
Strong's KJV usage: (di-) staff, participle
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 3:29Strong's last: 2 Samuel 3:29
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H4294
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
H4294
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
H4294
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
H4938
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
English meaning and historical usage.
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staff
STAFF, noun plural [G., a bar, a rod. The primary sense is to thrust, to shoot. See Stab.]
1. A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. Bread is the proverbially called the staff of life.
The boy was the very staff of my age.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalms 23:4.
2. A stick or club used as a weapon.
With forks and staves the felon they pursue.
3. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument; a pole or stick, used for many purposes.
4. The five lines and the spaces on which music is written.
5. An ensign of authority; a badge of office; as a constables staff
6. The round of a ladder.
7. A pole erected in a ship to hoist and display a flag; called a flag-staff. There is also a jack-staff, and an ensign-staff.
8. In military affairs, an establishment of officers in various departments, attached to an army. The staff includes officers not of the line, as adjutants, quarter-masters, chaplain, surgeon, etc. The staff is the medium of communication from the commander in chief to every department of an army.
9. A stanza; a series of verses so disposed that when it is concluded, the same order begins again.
Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for a heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.
10. Stave and staves, plural of staff [See Stave.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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