מִשְׁעֵנָה
mish.e.nah
“support”
Definition
support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick
or מִשְׁעֶנֶת; feminine of H4937 (מִשְׁעֵן);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מִשְׁעֵנָה appears 11 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
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Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
The princes dug the well;the nobles of the people hollowed it outwith their sceptersand with their staffs.”From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
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