Step
צַ֫עַדStrong’s H6806tsaad (tsa-ad)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaad is the Hebrew word usually translated “steps my”, “step my” and “step his”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.”
Meaning
- Step, pace, stridestep, pace · step, steps (of course of life) (fig)
How it's translated
- steps my 3
- step my 2
- step his 2
- steps 1
- steps of 1
- steps his 1
- step your 1
- steps her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Proverbs 4
- 2 Samuel 2
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
- Job 14:16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- Job 18:7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
- Job 31:4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
- Job 31:37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
- Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Hebrew dictionary
צַ֫עַד tsaad · step
1) step, pace, stride 1a) step, pace 1b) step, steps (of course of life) (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “step” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STEP, verb intransitive
[Gr., the foot. The sense is to set, as the foot, or move probably to open or part, to stretch or extend.]
- To move the foot; to advance or recede by a movement of the foot or feet; as, to step forward, or to step backward.
- To go; to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
- To walk gravely, slowly or resolutely.
- To walk or advance into a place or state; or to advance suddenly in
All definitions and other forms of “step”
- To enter for a short time.
- To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon suddenly; as, to step into an estate.
STEP, verb transitive
- To set, as the foot.
- To fix the foot of a mast in the keel; to erect.
STEP, noun
[G., to form a step or ledge.]
- A pace; an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot.
- One remove in ascending or descending; a stair.
- The space passed by the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- The distance between the feet in walking or running.
- Gradation; degree.
- Progression; act of advancing.
- Footstep; print or impression of the foot; track.
- Gait; manner of walking.
- Proceeding; measure; action.
- The round of a ladder.
- Steps in the plural, walk; passage.
- Pieces of timber in which the foot of a mast is fixed.
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.