Standing
תְּקוּמָהStrong’s H8617tequmah (te-qu-mah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tequmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “power to stand”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.”
Meaning
- Standing, ability or power to stand
How it's translated
- power to stand 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תְּקוּמָה tequmah · standing
standing, ability or power to stand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “standing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STANDING, participle present
tense
- Being on the feet; being erect. [See Stand.]
- Moving in a certain direction to or from an object.
- adjective Settled; established, either by law or by custom, etc.; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as a standing army.
- Lasting; not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; as a standing color.
All definitions and other forms of “standing”
- Stagnant; not flowing; as standing water.
- Fixed; not movable; as a standing bed; distinguished from a truckle bed.
- Remaining erect; not cut down; as standing corn.
STANDING, noun
- Continuance; duration or existence; as a custom of long standing
- Possession of an office, character or place; as a patron or officer of long standing
- Station; place to stand in.
- Power to stand.“I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing” Psalms 69:2
- Rank; condition in society; as a man of good standing or of high standing among his friends.
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.