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- Staff - n. - A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
- Staff - n. - A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
- Staff - n. - A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- Staff - n. - The round of a ladder.
- Staff - n. - A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- Staff - n. - The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
- Staff - n. - An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- Staff - n. - The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- Staff - n. - An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
- Staff - n. - Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
- Staff - n. - A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
- Staffier - n. - An attendant bearing a staff.
- Staffish - a. - Stiff; harsh.
- Staffman - n. - A workman employed in silk throwing.
- Staffmen - pl. - of Staffman
- Staffs - pl. - of Staff
- Staffs - pl. - of Staff
- Second - n. - The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.
- Crook - n. - The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
- Ploughfoot - n. - An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.
- Gonfanon - n. - A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.
- Tipstaff - n. - An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.
- Etat Major - - The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.
- Gibstaff - n. - A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.
- Flail - n. - An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
- Baculometry - n. - Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.
- Gibstaff - n. - A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.
- Officer - n. - One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
- Reportorial - a. - Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.
- Crutch - n. - A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.
- Mace - n. - A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
- Mace - n. - A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
- Conductor - n. - A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
- Truncheon - n. - A baton, or military staff of command.
- Club - n. - A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
- Gisarm - n. - A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.
- Direct - n. - A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
- Thyrsus - n. - A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
- Flag - n. - A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
- Wand - n. - A staff of authority.
- Baton - n. - A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
- Crosier - n. - The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
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- H6086 עֵץ - 6086 עֵץ - עֵץ - - ʻêts - ates - from עָצָה; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks); [phrase] carpenter, gallows, helve, [phrase] pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H905 בַּד - 905 בַּד - בַּד - - bad - bad - from בָּדַד; properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides; alone, apart, bar, besides, branch, by self, of each alike, except, only, part, staff, strength. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H2671 חֵץ - 2671 חֵץ - חֵץ - - chêts - khayts - from חָצַץ; also by interchange for עֵץ; properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear; [phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3676 כֵּס - 3676 כֵּס - כֵּס - - kêç - kace - apparently a contraction for כִּסֵּא, but probably by erroneous transcription for נֵס; {a flag; also a sail; by implication, a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively, a token}; sworn. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3601 כִּישׁוֹר - 3601 כִּישׁוֹר - כִּישׁוֹר - - kîyshôwr - kee-shore' - from כָּשֵׁר; compare פֶּלֶךְ; literally a director, i.e. the spindle or shank of adistaff, by which it is twirled; spindle. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4731 מַקֵּל - 4731 מַקֵּל - מַקֵּל - - maqqêl - mak-kale - or (feminine) מַקְּלָה; from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining); rod, (hand-)staff. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4294 מַטֶּה - 4294 מַטֶּה - מַטֶּה - - maṭṭeh - mat-teh' - or (feminine) מַטָּה; from נָטָה; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread); rod, staff, tribe. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4938 מִשְׁעֵנָה - 4938 מִשְׁעֵנָה - מִשְׁעֵנָה - - mishʻênâh - mish-ay-naw' - or מִשְׁעֶנֶת; feminine of מִשְׁעֵן; support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick; staff. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4132 מוֹט - 4132 מוֹט - מוֹט - - môwṭ - mote - from מוֹט; a wavering, i.e. fall; by implication, a pole (as shaking); hence, a yoke (as essentially a bent pole); bar, be moved, staff, yoke. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5251 נֵס - 5251 נֵס - נֵס - - nêç - nace - from נָסַס; a flag; also a sail; by implication, a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively, a token; banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H6418 פֶּלֶךְ - 6418 פֶּלֶךְ - פֶּלֶךְ - - pelek - peh'-lek - from an unused root meaning to be round; a circuit (i.e. district); also a spindle (as whirled); hence, a crutch; (di-) staff, participle - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4464 ῥάβδος - 4464 ῥάβδος - ῬΆΒΔΟΣ - - rhábdos - hrab'-dos - from the base of ῥαπίζω; a stick or wand (as a cudgel, a cane or a baton of royalty):--rod, sceptre, staff. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H7626 שֵׁבֶט - 7626 שֵׁבֶט - שֵׁבֶט - - shêbeṭ - shay'-bet - from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan; [idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8650 תֹּרֶן - 8650 תֹּרֶן - תֹּרֶן - - tôren - to'-ren - probably for אֹרֶן; a pole (as a mast or flagstaff); beacon, mast. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G3586 ξύλον - 3586 ξύλον - ΞΎΛΟΝ - - xýlon - xoo'-lon - from another form of the base of ξέστης; timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance:--staff, stocks, tree, wood. - Noun Neuter - greek
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- Mark 41 6:8 - And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only ; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse :
ΚΑΙ ΠΑΡΗΓΓΕΙΛΕΝ ΑΥΤΟΙς ΙΝΑ ΜΗΔΕΝ ΑΙΡΩΣΙΝ ΕΙς ΟΔΟΝ ΕΙ ΜΗ ΡΑΒΔΟΝ ΜΟΝΟΝ ΜΗ ΑΡΤΟΝ ΜΗ ΠΗΡΑΝ ΜΗ ΕΙς ΤΗΝ ΖΩΝΗΝ ΧΑΛΚΟΝ - Ezekiel 26 4:16 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem : and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care ; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment :
ויאמר אלי בנ־אדם הנני שׁבר מטה־לחם בירושׁלם ואכלו־לחם במשׁקל ובדאגה ומים במשׂורה ובשׁממון ישׁתו - Genesis 1 38:18 - And he said , What pledge shall I give thee? And she said , Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
ויאמר מה הערבון אשׁר אתנ־לך ותאמר חתמך ופתילך ומטך אשׁר בידך ויתנ־לה ויבא אליה ותהר לו - Isaiah 23 30:32 - And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps : and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
והיה כל מעבר מטה מוסדה אשׁר יניח יהוה עליו בתפים ובכנרות ובמלחמות תנופה נלחמ־בה - Ezekiel 26 29:6 - And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
וידעו כל־ישׁבי מצרים כי אני יהוה יען היותם משׁענת קנה לבית ישׂראל
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- Judges 7 6:21 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.
מֲלְאָךְ יְהֹוָה שָׁלַח קָצֶה מִשְׁעֵנָה יָד נָגַע בָּשָׂר מַצָּה עָלָה אֵשׁ צוּר אָכַל בָּשָׂר מַצָּה מֲלְאָךְ יְהֹוָה הָלַךְ עַיִן - Isaiah 23 3:1 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.
אָדוֹן יְהֹוָה צָבָא סוּר יְרוּשָׁלִַם יְהוּדָה מִשְׁעֵן מִשְׁעֵנָה מִשְׁעֵן לֶחֶם כֹּל מִשְׁעֵן מַיִם - Psalms 19 105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
קָרָא רָעָב אֶרֶץ שָׁבַר מַטֶּה לֶחֶם - Ezekiel 26 5:16 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:
שָׁלַח רַע חֵץ רָעָב מַשְׁחִית שָׁלַח שָׁחַת יָסַף רָעָב שָׁבַר מַטֶּה לֶחֶם - 2 Kings 12 18:21 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.
בָּטַח מִשְׁעֵנָה רָצַץ קָנֶה מִצְרַיִם אִישׁ סָמַךְ בּוֹא כַּף נָקַב פַּרְעֹה מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם בָּטַח