Maʻămâd — H4612

Definition

masculine noun

(figuratively) a position

1. attendance, office, function, service
1. station, office, post
2. office, function
3. service

Usually translated as

attendance, office, place, state

Origin

from H5975

• Derived from ʻâmad (H5975)

Occurrences

Maʻămâd occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Isaiah (1)

• 1 Kings 10:5 — And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance (וּמַעֲמַ֨ד) of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
• 1 Chronicles 23:28 — Because their office (מַעֲמָדָ֞ם) was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
• 2 Chronicles 9:4 — And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance (וּמַעֲמַ֨ד) of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
• 2 Chronicles 35:15 — And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place (מַעֲמָדָ֗ם), according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
• Isaiah 22:19 — And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state (וּמִמַּעֲמָֽדְךָ֖) shall he pull thee down.