Staffs
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which
shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to
destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will
break your staff of bread:...
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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed, [even] upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go
into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt
unto all that trust on him....
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staf: Many Hebrew terms are represented by this word. The
"staves" of the ark translate the word badh, literally, "a
part," hence, branch, bar, etc. (Ex 25:13,14,15,27,28, etc.).
Other words, as matteh, maqqel, shebhet, used of the staff in
the hand, the shepherd's staff, figuratively, "staff of bread"
(matteh, Ezek 4:16; 5:16; 14:13), as indi...
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(maqqel, maTTeh, shebheT; rhabdos): Little distinction can be
drawn between the Hebrew words used for "rod" and "staff."
Maqqel is the word used in Gen 30:37 ff for the twigs of
poplar put by Jacob before his sheep, and in Jer 1:11 of the
"rod of an almond-tree." MaTTeh is used of a rod in the hand,
as the "rods" of Moses and of Aaron (Ex 4:2 ...
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Emblem of authority. Exodus 4:2, etc., Moses'; Numbers 17,
Aaron's; Psalm 2:9, Christ's. He will either rule with the
pastoral rod, or break with the rod (scepter) of iron
(Revelation 2:27; Revelation 19:15; Micah 6:9; Micah 7:14;
Psalm 110:2; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 11:4)....
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And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and
plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him
with his own spear....
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Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that
[was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened
cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed
the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD
departed out of his sight....
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And he slew an Egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits
high; and in the Egyptian's hand [was] a spear like a weaver's
beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the
spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own
spear....
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For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,...
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Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's
house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that
hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff,
or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread....
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