Advocate
שָׂהֵדStrong’s H7717sahed (sa-hed)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sahed is the Hebrew word usually translated “witness my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.”
Meaning
- Witness
How it's translated
- and witness my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שָׂהֵד sahed · advocate
witness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “advocate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AD'VOCATE, noun
[Latin advocatus, from advoco, to call for, to plead for; of ad and voco, to call. See Vocal.]
- advocate in its primary sense, signifies, one who pleads the cause of another in a court of civil law.
- One who pleads the cause of another before any tribunal or judicial court, as a barrister in the English courts.
- One who defends, vindicates, or espouses a cause, by argument; one who is friendly to; as, an advocate for peace, or for the oppressed.“We have an advocate with the father” 1 John 2:1
All definitions and other forms of “advocate”
AD'VOCATE, verb transitive
To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal; to support or vindicate.
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.