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To slip

מָעַדStrong’s H4571

maad (ma-ad)

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Maad is the Hebrew word usually translated “slip”, “are sliding of” and “have slipped”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.”
2 Samuel 22:37 KJV
Meaning
  1. To slip, slide, totter, shake(Qal) to slip · (Hiphil) to cause or make to shake or totter
How it's translated
  • they slip 1
  • to are sliding of 1
  • they have slipped 1
  • i will slip 1
  • it slips 1
  • make to shake 1
  • slipped 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 4
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • Job 1
  • Proverbs 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מָעַד maad · to slip

1) to slip, slide, totter, shake 1a) (Qal) to slip 1b) (Hiphil) to cause or make to shake or totter

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “slip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SLIP, verb intransitive

[Latin labor, to slide.]

  1. To slide; to glide; to move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling or stepping.
  2. To slide; not to tread firmly.
  3. TO move or fly out of place; usually without; as, a bone may slip out of its place.
  4. To sneak; to slink; to depart or withdraw secretly; with away.
All definitions and other forms of “slip”
  1. To err; to fall into error or fault.
  2. To glide; to pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly.
  3. To enter by oversight.
  4. To escape insensibly; to be lost.

SLIP, verb transitive

  1. To convey secretly.
  2. To omit; to lose by negligence.
  3. To part twigs from the branches or stem of a tree.
  4. To escape from; to leave slily.
  5. To let loose; as, to slip the hounds.
  6. To throw off; to disengage one's self from; as, a horse slip his bridle.
  7. To pass over or omit negligently; as, to slip over that main points of a subject.
  8. To tear off; as, to slip off a twig.
  9. To suffer abortion; to miscarry; as a beast.

SLIP, noun

  1. A sliding; act of slipping.
  2. An unintentional error or fault.
  3. A twig separated from the main stock; as the slip of a vine.
  4. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being so made as to slip or become loose by relaxation of the hand.
  5. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
  6. A long narrow piece; as a slip of paper.
  7. A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver. [Not in use.]
  8. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge-tools.
  9. A particular quantity of yarn.
  10. An opening between wharves or in a dock.
  11. A place having a gradual descent on the bank of a river or harbor, convenient for ship-building.
  12. A long seat or narrow pew in churches.

SLIP'-BOARD, noun

A board sliding in grooves.

    SLIP'-KNOT, noun

    A bow-knot; a knot which will not beat a strain, or which os easily untied.

      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.