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Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Read in context →Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
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yâthêd · yaw-thade'
a peg
Strong's KJV usage: nail, paddle, pin, stake.
Strong's first: Isaiah 33:20Strong's last: Isaiah 54:2
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Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
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STAKE, noun [The primary sense is to shoot, to thrust, hence to set or fix.]
1. A small piece of wood or timber, sharpened at one end and set in the ground, or prepared for setting, as a support to something. Thus stakes are used to support vines, to support fences, hedges and the like. A stake is not to be confounded with a post, which is a larger piece of timber.
2. A piece of long rough wood.
A sharpend stake strong Dryas found.
3. A palisade, or something resembling it.
4. The piece of timber to which a martyr is fastened when he is to be burnt. Hence, to perish at the stake is to die a martyr, or to die in torment. Hence,
5. Figuratively, martyrdom. The stake was prepared for those who were convicted of heresy.
6. That which is pledged and wagered; that which is set, thrown down or laid, to abide the issue of a contest, to be gained by victory or lost by defeat.
7. The state of being laid or pledged as a wager. His honor is at stake
8. A small anvil to straighten cold word, or to cut and punch upon.
STAKE, verb transitive
1. To fasten, support or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
2. To mark the limits by stakes; with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road, or the ground for a canal.
3. To wager; to pledge; to put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency.
Ill stake yon lamb that near the fountain plays.
4. To point or sharpen stakes. [Not used in America.]
5. To pierce with a stake
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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