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stead

Meaning of “stead”

The place, position, office, or role occupied by one person or thing in substitution for another.

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KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
94 occurrences94 verses18 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 22:13

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2 Chronicles 32:33
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 32:33 · retained source text

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the Sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid: and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his stead.

1611 marginal noteOr, highest.

2 Chronicles 33:20
¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 33:20 · retained source text

¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his owne house: and Amon his sonne reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 33:25
¶ But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
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¶ But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made Iosiah his sonne, king in his stead.

2 Chronicles 36:1
THEN the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 36:1 · retained source text

¶ Then the people of the land tooke Iehoahaz the son of Iosiah, and made him King in his fathers stead in Ierusalem.

1611 marginal note2.King. 23.30. &c.

2 Chronicles 36:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 36:8 · retained source text

Now the rest of the acts of Iehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah: and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.

1611 marginal noteOr, Ieconiah, 1.chro. 3.16.or, Coniah, ier. 22.24.

Job 16:4
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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1611 witness · Job 16:4 · retained source text

I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you.

Job 33:6
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
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1611 witness · Job 33:6 · retained source text

Behold, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

1611 marginal noteHeb. according to thy mouth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut out of the clay.

1611 marginal noteCha. 9.35. and 23.20.

Job 34:24
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
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1611 witness · Job 34:24 · retained source text

He shall breake in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

1611 marginal noteHeb. without searching out.

Proverbs 11:8
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 11:8 · retained source text

The righteous is deliuered out of trouble, and the wicked commeth in his stead.

1611 marginal noteChap. 21.18.

Ecclesiastes 4:15
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 4:15 · retained source text

I considered all the liuing which walke vnder the sunne, with the second child that shall stand vp in his stead.

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Place; 'in the stead of' means in the place of.

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