STRONGS NUMBER H7717


Word Summary
sahed: a witness
Original Word: שָׂהֵד
Transliteration: sahed
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-hade')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a witness
Meaning: a witness
Strong's Concordance
record

From an unused root meaning to testify; a witness -- record.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7717. sahed

[שָׂהֵד‎] noun [masculine] witness (Aramaic loan-word = Hebrew עֵד‎; √ סְהַד‎ ); — suffix שָֽׂהֲדִיJob 16:19 ("" עֵדִי‎). — שָֽׂהֲדוּתָאGenesis 31:47 see Biblical Aramaic Lexicon.

שׂהר‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic new moon ( is make conspicuous, notorious); Ethiopic id.; סִיהֲרָא ᵑ7‎, Syriac moon; Old Aramaic שהרmoon-god Lzb373).

[שָֽׂהֲדוּ‎] noun feminine testimony (√ שְׂהַד‎ = סְהַד ᵑ7testify, Syriac , Arabic testify, compare Biblical Hebrew [שָׂהֵד‎] (once, as loan-word) KAramaic 86; Egyptian Aramaic plural שהדיאֹwitnesses Cooke404 S-CA. 15 + often); — emphatic שָֽׂהֲדוּתָאGenesis 31:47 ("" Biblical Hebrew עֵד‎).