Slope
אֶ֫שֶׁדStrong’s H0793eshed (e-shed)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Eshed is the Hebrew word usually translated “slope of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.”
Meaning
- Bottom, slope, foundation, lower part
How it's translated
- and slope of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
אֶ֫שֶׁד eshed · slope
bottom, slope, foundation, lower part
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slope” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLOPE, adjective
[This word contains the elements of Latin labor, lapsus, and Eng. slip; also of Latin levo. Eng. lift. I know not whether it originally signified ascending or descending, probably the latter.]
Inclined or inclining form a horizontal direction; forming an angle with the plane of the horizon; as slope hills. [Little used.]
All definitions and other forms of “slope”
SLOPE, noun
- An oblique direction; a line or direction inclining from a horizontal line; properly, a direction downwards.
- An oblique direction in general; a direction forming an angle with a perpendicular or other right line.
- A declivity; any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon; also, an acclivity, as every declivity must be also an acclivity.
SLOPE, verb transitive
To form with a slope; to form to declivity or obliquity; to direct obliquely; to incline; as, to slope the ground in a garde; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
SLOPE, verb intransitive
To take an oblique direction; to be declivous or inclined.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.