To tread
סָאַןStrong’s H5431saan (sa-an)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Saan is the Hebrew word usually translated “marches”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to tread, tramp
How it's translated
- marches 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סָאַן saan · to tread
(Qal) to tread, tramp
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tread” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TREAD, verb intransitive
tred. preterit tense trod; participle passive trod, troden. [Latin trudo.]
- To set the foot.
- To walk or go.“Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours” Deuteronomy 11:24
- To walk with form or state.
- To copulate, as fowls.
All definitions and other forms of “tread”
TREAD, verb transitive
tred. To step or walk on.
- To press under the feet.
- To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well trodden path.
- To walk in a formal or stately manner.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue. Psalms 44:5
- To compress, as a fowl.
TREAD, noun
tred. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread
- Way; track; path. [Little used.]
- Compression of the male fowl.
- Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread
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.