To ambush
צָדָהStrong’s H6658tsadah (tsa-dah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsadah is the Hebrew word usually translated “was lying in wait”, “lying in wait for” and “have been laid waste”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to lie in wait
- To lay waste(Niphal) to be laid waste
How it's translated
- he was lying in wait 1
- lying in wait for 1
- they have been laid waste 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Zephaniah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 24:11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
- Zephaniah 3:6I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Hebrew dictionary
צָדָה tsadah · to ambush
(Qal) to lie in wait
צָדָה tsadah · to waste
1) to lay waste 1a) (Niphal) to be laid waste
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ambush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AM'BUSH, noun
- A private or concealed station, where troops lie in wait to attack their enemy by surprise.
- The state of lying concealed, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; a lying in wait.
- The troops posted in a concealed place for attacking by surprise.“Lay thee an ambush for the city” Joshua 8:2
All definitions and other forms of “ambush”
AM'BUSH, verb transitive
To lie in wait for; to surprise, by assailing unexpectedly from a concealed place.
AM'BUSH, verb intransitive
To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise.
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.