Strong's Hebrew: 4938. מַשְׁעֵנָה (mish'enah) -- staff

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Lexicon

mish'enah: staff

Original Word: מַשְׁעֵנָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: mish'enah
Phonetic Spelling: (mish-ay-naw')
Short Definition: staff

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַשְׁעֵנָה noun feminine id., see foregoing (masculine and feminine to exhaust the category = support of every kind).

מִשְׁעֶ֫נֶת noun feminine staff; — absolute Judges 6:21; 2 Kings 4:31; construct 2 Kings 18:20 +; suffix מִשְׁעַנְתּוֺ Exodus 21:19; Zechariah 8:4, etc.; plural suffix מִשְׁעֲנֹתָם Numbers 21:18; — staff, Exodus 21:19 (E) Numbers 21:18 (J) Judges 6:21; 2 Kings 4:28; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 2:31; Zechariah 8:4; figurative of political support, מִשְׁעֶנֶת הַקָּנֶה הָרָצוּץ 2 Kings 18:21 = Isaiah 36:6, compare Ezekiel 29:6; of ׳י as shepherd Psalm 23:4 (+שֵׁבֶט).

Strong's

staff

Or mishteneth {mish-eh'-neth}; feminine of mish'en; support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick -- staff.

see HEBREW mish'en