Descent
מוֹרָדStrong’s H4174morad (mo-rad)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Morad is the Hebrew word usually translated “at the descent”, “at descent of” and “hanging”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.”
Meaning
- Descent, slope, steep place, hanging work, bevelled workdescent · hanging work
How it's translated
- at the descent 2
- at descent of 1
- hanging 1
- on descent of 1
- on a slope 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Micah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
- 2 Samuel 13:34But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
- 1 Kings 7:29And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
- Jeremiah 48:5For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
- Micah 1:4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹרָד morad · descent
1) descent, slope, steep place, hanging work, bevelled work 1a) descent 1b) hanging work
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “descent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESCENT, noun
- The act of descending; the act of passing from a higher to a lower place, by any form of motion, as by walking, riding, rolling, sliding, sinking or falling.
- Inclination downward; obliquity; slope; declivity; as the descent of a hill, or a roof.
- Progress downward; as the descent from higher to lower orders of beings.
- Fall from a higher to a lower state or station.
All definitions
- A landing from ships; invasion of troops from the sea; as, to make a descent on Cuba.
- A passing from an ancestor to an heir; transmission by succession or inheritance, as the descent of an estate or a title from the father to the son. descent is lineal, when it proceeds directly from the father to the son, and from the son to the grandson; collateral, when it proceeds from a man to his brother, nephew or other collateral representative.
- A proceeding from an original or progenitor.
- Birth; extraction; lineage; as a noble descent
- A generation; a single degree in the scale of genealogy; distance from the common ancestor.
- Offspring; issue; descendants.
- A rank in the scale of subordination.
- Lowest place.
- In music, a passing from a note or sound to one more grave or less acute.
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.