Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4938: מִשְׁעֵנָה

mishʻênâh · pronounced mish-ay-naw' · “support”

Definition

support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick

KJV translates it as: staff.

Word origin: or מִשְׁעֶנֶת; feminine of H4937 (מִשְׁעֵן);

Extended definition

support

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4938 is translated

  • his ×2
  • staff ×2
  • my ×2
  • the staff of ×2
  • their ×1
  • your ×1
  • support ×1
  • a staff of ×1

Bible verses with H4938 (mishʻênâh)

Mishʻênâh appears in 11 verses.

  • Exodus 21:19

    If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

  • Numbers 21:18

    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:

  • Judges 6:21

    Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

  • 2 Kings 4:29

    Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

  • 2 Kings 4:31

    And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

  • 2 Kings 18:21

    Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

  • Psalms 23:4

    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

  • Isaiah 3:1

    For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

  • Isaiah 36:6

    Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

  • Ezekiel 29:6

    And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

  • Zechariah 8:4

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.