Provision
צֵידָהStrong’s H6720tsedah (tse-dah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsedah is the Hebrew word usually translated “provision” and “food”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.”
Meaning
- Provision, food
How it's translated
- provision 6
- food 2
- and food 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Joshua 2
- Judges 2
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 45:21And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
- Exodus 12:39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
- Joshua 1:11Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.
- Joshua 9:11Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
- Judges 7:8So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
- Judges 20:10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
צֵידָה tsedah · provision
provision, food
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “provision” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROVI'SION, noun
s as z. [Latin provisio, provideo. See Provide.]
- The act of providing or making previous preparation.
- Things provided; preparation; measures taken beforehand, either for security, defense or attack, or for the supply of wants.
- Stores provided; stock; as provision of victuals; provision of materials.
- Victuals; food; provender; all manner of eatables for man and beast; as provisions for the table or for the family; provisions for an army.
All definitions and other forms of “provision”
- Previous stipulation; terms or agreement made, or measures taken for a future exigency.
PROVI'SION, verb transitive
To supply with victuals or food. The ship was provisioned for a voyage of six months. The garrison was well provisioned.
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.