Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
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Hosea 13:13
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
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עָמַד
ʻâmad · aw-mad'
10 times translated as this KJV form520 total Strong's occurrences
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Strong's KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 19:17Strong's last: Hosea 13:13
Open full H5975 profile →מִשְׁעֵן
mishʻên · mish-ane'
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a support (concretely), i.e. (figuratively) a protector or sustenance
Strong's KJV usage: stay.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:19Strong's last: Isaiah 3:1
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shâʻan · shaw-an'
5 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
to support one's self
Strong's KJV usage: lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.
Strong's first: Isaiah 10:20Strong's last: Isaiah 50:10
Open full H8172 profile →רָפָה
râphâh · raw-faw'
3 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See 7495.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 15:16Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:15
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çâmak · saw-mak'
2 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences
to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
Strong's KJV usage: bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 2:5Strong's last: Isaiah 48:2
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mâhahh · maw-hah'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to question or hesitate, i.e. (by implication) to be reluctant
Strong's KJV usage: delay, linger, stay selves, tarry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 29:9Strong's last: Isaiah 29:9
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mᵉchâʼ · mekh-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to strike in pieces; also to arrest; specifically to impale
Strong's KJV usage: hang, smite, stay.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:35Strong's last: Daniel 4:35
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ʻâgan · aw-gan'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to debar, i.e. from marriage
Strong's KJV usage: stay.
Strong's first: Ruth 1:13Strong's last: Ruth 1:13
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ʻâqab · aw-kab'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
Strong's KJV usage: take by the heel, stay, supplant, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 37:4Strong's last: Job 37:4
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pinnâh · pin-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain
Strong's KJV usage: bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 19:13Strong's last: Isaiah 19:13
Open full H6438 profile →שָׁכַב
shâkab · shaw-kab'
1 times translated as this KJV form212 total Strong's occurrences
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Strong's first: Job 38:37Strong's last: Job 38:37
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tâmak · taw-mak'
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to sustain; by implication, to obtain, keep fast; figuratively, to help, follow close
Strong's KJV usage: (take, up-) hold (up), maintain, retain, stay (up).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 28:17Strong's last: Proverbs 28:17
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H5975
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
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Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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stay
STAY, verb intransitive preterit tense staid, for stayed. [Latin , to stand.]
1. To remain; to continue in a place; to abide for any indefinite time. Do you stay here, while I go to the next house. stay here a week. We staid at the Hotel Montmorenci.
STAY, I command you; stay and hear me first.
2. To continue in a state.
The flames augment, and stay at their full highth, then languish to decay.
3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
I stay for Turnus.
Would ye stay for them from having husbands? Ruth 1:13.
4. To stop; to stand still.
She would command the hasty sun to stay
5. To dwell.
I must stay a little on one action.
6. To rest; to rely; to confide in; to trust.
Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression, and stay thereon--Isaiah 30:12.
STAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive staid, for stayed.
1. To stop; to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain.
All that may stay the mind from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.
To stay these sudden gusts of passion.
2. To delay; to obstruct; to hinder from proceeding.
Your ships are staid at Venice.
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me to be new.
3. To keep from departure; as, you might have staid me here.
4. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to hold up; to support.
Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands. Exodus 17:12.
Sallows and reeds for vineyards useful found to stay thy vines.
5. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; as, to take a luncheon to stay the stomach.
STAY, noun
1. Continuance in a place; abode for a time indefinite; as, you make a short stay in this city.
Embrace the hero, and his stay implore.
2. Stand; stop; cessation of motion or progression.
Affairs of state seemd rather to stand at a stay
[But in this sense, we now use stand; to be at a stand.]
3. Stop; obstruction; hinderance from progress.
Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay
4. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
With prudent stay he long deferrd the rough contention.
5. A fixed state.
Alas, what stay is there in human state!
6. Prop; support.
Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
My only strength and stay!
The Lord is my stay Psalms 18:18.
The stay and the staff, the means of supporting and preserving life. Isaiah 3:1.
7. Steadiness of conduct.
8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship. The fore-stay reaches from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end; the main-stay extends to the ships stem; the mizen-stay is stretched to a collar on the main-mast, above the quarter deck, etc.
STAYs, in seamanship, implies the operation of going about or changing the course of a ship, with a shifting of the sails. To be in stays, is to lie with the head to the wind, and the sails so arranged as to check her progress.
To miss stays, to fail in the attempt to go about.
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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