Exodus 25:13
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
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And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
Read in context →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?
Read in context →27 occurrences in 25 verses.
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bad · bad
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.
Strong's first: Exodus 25:13Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 5:9
Open full H905 profile →xýlon · xoo'-lon
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.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:47Strong's last: Luke 22:52
Open full G3586 profile →rhábdos · hrab'-dos
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 →maqqêl · mak-kale
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 →môwṭâh · mo-taw'
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 →maṭṭeh · mat-teh'
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 →mishʻênâh · mish-ay-naw'
support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick
Strong's KJV usage: staff.
Strong's first: Numbers 21:18Strong's last: Numbers 21:18
Open full H4938 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
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.
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
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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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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