Rod
מַקֵּלStrong’s H4731maqqel (maq-qel)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maqqel is the Hebrew word usually translated “branches”, “staff my” and “branch of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.”
Meaning
- Rod, staffrod, stick · staff (in travel) · wand (of diviner)
How it's translated
- the branches 4
- staff my 2
- branch of 1
- at the branches 1
- with staff my 1
- and staff your 1
- with the stick 1
- stick his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
- Zechariah 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:10In contextAnd I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
- Zechariah 11:14In contextThen I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- Genesis 30:37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- Genesis 30:38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
- Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
Hebrew dictionary
מַקֵּל maqqel · rod
1) rod, staff 1a) rod, stick 1b) staff (in travel) 1c) wand (of diviner)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rod” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROD, noun
[Latin radius, ray, radix, root.]
- The shoot or long twig of any woody plant; a branch, or the stem of a shrub; as a rod of hazle, of birch, of oak or hickory.
- An instrument of punishment or correction; chastisement.“I will chasten him with the rod of men” 2 Samuel 7:14
- Discipline; ecclesiastical censures. 1 Corinthians 4:21
- A king of scepter.
All definitions
- A pole for angling; something long and slender.
- An instrument for measuring; but more generally, a measure of length containing five yards, or sixteen feet and a half; a pole; a perch.
- In Scripture, a staff or wand. 1 Samuel 14:27
- Support.“Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me” Psalms 23:4
- A shepherd's crook. Leviticus 27:32
- An instrument for threshing. Isaiah 28:27
- Power; authority. Psalms 125:3
- A tribe or race.
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.