Exodus 25:13
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
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Staves
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Luke 22:52
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
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27 occurrences in 25 verses.
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בַּד
bad · bad
37 times translated as this KJV form56 total Strong's occurrences
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides
Strong's KJV usage: alone, apart, bar, besides, branch, by self, of each alike, except, only, part, staff, strength.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 25:13Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 5:9
Open full H905 profile →ξύλον
xýlon · xoo'-lon
5 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance
Strong's KJV usage: :--staff, stocks, tree, wood.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:47Strong's last: Luke 22:52
Open full G3586 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: Matthew 10:10Strong's last: Luke 9:3
Open full G4464 profile →מַקֵּל
maqqêl · mak-kale
2 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: 1 Samuel 17:43Strong's last: Zechariah 11:7
Open full H4731 profile →מוֹטָה
môwṭâh · mo-taw'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a pole; by implication, an ox-bow; hence, a yoke (either literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: bands, heavy, staves, yoke.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 15:15Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 15:15
Open full H4133 profile →מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh · mat-teh'
1 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: Habakkuk 3:14Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:14
Open full H4294 profile →מִשְׁעֵנָה
mishʻênâh · mish-ay-naw'
1 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: Numbers 21:18Strong's last: Numbers 21:18
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H4294
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
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staves
STAVES, plural of staff, when applied to a stick, is pronounced with a as in ask, the Italian sound.
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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