Office
מַעֲמָדStrong’s H4612maamad (ma-a-mad)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maamad is the Hebrew word usually translated “standing of”, “function their” and “post their”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.”
Meaning
- Attendance, office, function, servicestation, office, post · office, function · service
How it's translated
- and standing of 2
- function their 1
- post their 1
- and from post your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 23:28Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
- 2 Chronicles 9:4And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
- 2 Chronicles 35:15And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
- Isaiah 22:19And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲמָד maamad · office
1) attendance, office, function, service 1a) station, office, post 1b) office, function 1c) service
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “office” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OF'FICE, noun
[Latin officium; ob and facio, to make or do.]
- A particular duty, charge or trust conferred by public authority and for a public purpose; an employment undertaken by commission or authority from government or those who administer it.
- A duty, charge or trust of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as the office of priest, in the Old Testament; and that of the apostles, in the New Testament.“Insomuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office” Romans 11:13
- Duty or employment of a private nature; as the office of a midwife. Exodus 1:16
- That which is performed, intended or assigned to be done by a particular thing, or that which any thing is fitted to perform; answering to duty in intelligent beings.
All definitions and other forms of “office”
- Business; particular employment.
- Act of good or ill voluntarily tendered; usually in a good sense; as kind offices; offices of pity; pious offices.
- Act of worship.
- Formulary of devotion.
- A house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as the register's office; a lawyer's office
- In architecture, an apartment appropriated for the necessary business or occasions of a palace or nobleman's house.
- In the canon law, a benefice which has no jurisdiction annexed to it.
- The person or persons entrusted with particular duties of a public nature.
OF'FICE, verb transitive
To perform; to do; to discharge. [Not used.]
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.