Station
מַצָּבStrong’s H4673matstsav (mats-tsav)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matstsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “garrison of”, “from standing-place of” and “standing-place of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.”
Meaning
- Station, garrison, standing-placestanding-place (of feet) · station, office, position · garrison, post, outpost
How it's translated
- garrison of 5
- from standing-place of 1
- standing-place of 1
- the garrison 1
- and a garrison of 1
- from office your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 6
- Joshua 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 4:9And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
- 1 Samuel 13:23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:1Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
- 1 Samuel 14:4And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
- 1 Samuel 14:6And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
- 1 Samuel 14:11And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
Hebrew dictionary
מַצָּב matstsav · station
1) station, garrison, standing-place 1a) standing-place (of feet) 1b) station, office, position 1c) garrison, post, outpost
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “station” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STATION, noun
[Latin]
- The act of standing.
- A state of rest.
- The spot or place where one stands, particularly where a person habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as the station of a sentinel.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform.
All definitions and other forms of “station”
- Situation; position.
- Employment; occupation; business.
- Character; state.
- Rank; condition of life.
- In church history, the fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- In the church of Rome, a church where indulgences are to be had on certain days.
STATION, verb transitive
To place; to set; or to appoint to the occupation of a post, place or office; as, to station troops on the right or left of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa or in the West Indies; to station a man at the head of the department of finance.
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.