Post
עֹ֫מֶדStrong’s H5977omed (o-med)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Omed is the Hebrew word usually translated “place their”, “standing place my” and “place his”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.”
Meaning
- Standing place
How it's translated
- place their 5
- standing place my 2
- place his 1
- standing place your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Nehemiah 3
- Daniel 3
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:18In contextNow as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
- Daniel 10:11In contextAnd he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
- 2 Chronicles 30:16And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 34:31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
- 2 Chronicles 35:10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
- Nehemiah 8:7Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹ֫מֶד omed · post
standing place
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “post” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POST, adjective
Suborned; hired to do what is wrong. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “post”
POST, noun
[Latin postis, from positus, the given participle of pono, to place.]
- A piece of timber set upright, usually larger than a stake, and intended to support something else; as the posts of a house; the posts of a door; the posts of a gate; the posts of a fence.
- A military station; the place where a single soldier or a body of troops is stationed.
- The troops stationed in a particular place, or the ground they occupy.
- A public office or employment, that is, a fixed place or station.
- A messenger or a carrier of letters and papers; one that goes at stated times to convey the mail or dispatches.
- A seat or situation.
- A sort of writing paper, such as is used for letters; letter paper.
- An old game at cards.
POST, verb intransitive
To travel with speed.
POST, verb transitive
To fix to a post; as, to post a notification.
- To expose to public reproach by fixing the name to a post; to expose to opprobrium by some public action; as, to post a coward.
- To advertise on a post or in a public place; as, to post a stray horse.
- To set; to place; to station; as, to post troops on a hill, or in front or on the flank of an army.
- In book-keeping, to carry accounts from the waste-book or journal to the ledger.
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.