סָעַד
to support
also: sustain, stay, establish, strengthen fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5582 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סעד — transliterated çâʻad — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to support.” Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (50% of all occurrences). Spanning 12 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 18:5, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexical range runs to 2 senses — “to support” plus “sustain”, “stay”, and “establish”. See the sense tree, 12-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5582 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 58%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Comfort 2×
- American Standard Version: Strengthen 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Refresh 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, He sustains 1×, Is sustained 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5582 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5582 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5582 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5582 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to support, sustain, stay, establish, strengthen, comfort
- (Qal) to support, sustain
Word origin
סָעַד vb. support, sustain, stay
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סָעַד
- 1. to support, strengthen. Lam. R. to II, 2; Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵈ bot. לא תִסְעוֹד, v. סָבַף. Midr. Till. to Ps. XLI, 3 אני סוֹעֲדוֹ ומעמידו I will strengthen and raise him (from his sick-bed); a. fr.
- 2. (with or without לב) to satisfy the appetite, to satiate. Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 15 הלחם סוֹעד (ed. Bub. לבב) bread satiates, v. מְזוֹנִיתָא. Yalk. Lev. 675 (ref. to Lev. XXVI, 26) לרבות כל סוֹעֲדֵי לחם (fr. a noun סוֹעָד) this include all supports by bread (all substitutes of food); Sifra B’ḥuck. Par. 2, ch. VI מְסָעֲדֵי or מִסְעֲדֵי. e.g. Leviticus 26:26
- 3. (denom. of סְעוּדָה) to dine. Ḥull. 7ᵇ רצונך סְעוֹד אצלי please dine with me. Erub. 53ᵇ מדוע אינך סוֹעֵד why dost thou not eat?; כבר סָעַדְתִּי וכ׳ I have had my meal in daytime; a. fr.—Sabb. 62ᵇ במה סָעַדְתָּ היום what did you dine on to-day? (a lascivious metaphor).—[Ib. 12ᵇ ששכינה סועד, v. סָעַר I.]
- to support, assist. Yalk. Num. 760 לסַעֲדָהּ in order to keep her (the cow) steady (on the ship). Sabb. XVIII, 3 אבל מְסַעֲדִין but you may assist (an animal in child-birth); expl. ib. 128ᵇ. Ib. (quot. fr. Tosef. ib. XV (XVI), 2) כיצד מסעדין אוחזין וכ׳ (Tosef. l. c. מסייעין).
סְעַד
- 1. to assist, help. Targ. I Sam. VII, 12 (ed. Wil. Pa.).—Targ. Gen. XXVII, 37 (h. text סמך); a. fr.—Lam. R. to II, 2 לא נִסְעוֹד וכ׳, v. סְכַף.
- 2. (with or without לִיבָּא) to dine, eat. Targ. Jud. XIX, 5. Targ. Ps. XIV, 4.—Gitt. 67ᵇ מאי טעמא לא סָעֵיד מר גבן why will you not dine with us?
- 3. to satiate, contrad. to זון and to גרר. Ber. 35ᵇ חמרא סָעֵיד wine satisfies; נהמא מִיסְעַד סעיד וכ׳ bread satisfies but does not exhilarate; a. e.
- to support, help. Targ. II Chr. XXVIII, 23. Targ. Y. Ex. XVII, 12.
- to be supported. Targ. Is. V, 6.
סַעַד
- (preced.) support, auxiliary. Tosef. Snh. II, 4 עושין אותן ס׳ לשנה we consider each of these circumstances an auxiliary reason for intercalation; Snh. 11ᵃ; Y. ib. I, 18ᵈ top (corr. acc.).
סְעַד ²
- 1. same, support, assistance. Targ. I Kings X, 12 סעד Bxt. (ed. סְעִיד). Targ. Gen. XXI, 20; a. fr.—Lam. R. to II, 2 ברייא בסַעֲדֵיכוֹן מן אלין the Lord help you against these (Romans); (Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵃ ברייכון סְעוֹדִינְכוֹן, סְעוֹדוּנ׳).—Pl. סַעֲדִין, constr. סַעֲדֵי. Targ. Y. Lev. XXVI, 26 (v. סָעַד).
- 2. food. Targ. Ruth II, 14.—
- *3. סַעֲדִין root of the Cyperus Rotundus. Gen. R. s. 72 (expl. דודאים, Gen. XXX, 14) ס׳ Ar. (ed. שעורין). e.g. Genesis 30:14
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H5582 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/סַעֲד֤וּ | Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Genesis 18:5 | 1 |
| וְ/סָעַ֖ד | Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Proverbs 20:28 | 1 |
| וּֽ/לְ/סַעֲדָ֔/הּ | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Isaiah 9:7 | 1 |
| וּֽ/סְעָ֑דָ/ה | Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Kings 13:7 | 1 |
| יִ֭סְעָדֶ/נּוּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 41:3 | 1 |
| יִסְעָֽד | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 104:15 | 1 |
| יִסְעָדֵֽ/נִי | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 94:18 | 1 |
| יִסְעָדֶֽ/ךָּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 20:2 | 1 |
| סְעָ֧ד | Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Judges 19:5 | 1 |
| סְעָד | Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Judges 19:8 | 1 |
| סְעָדֵ֥/נִי | Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 119:117 | 1 |
| תִסְעָדֵ֑/נִי | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Psalms 18:35 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5582, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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