Lexical Definition

‎סַד‎ çad (sad) stock ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to estop

stocks.

• the stocks

1) stocks (for feet)

See Greek: ξύλον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סַד‎ noun [masculine] stocks, for confining feet of culprits (probably loan-word from Aramaic ‎סַדָּא‎, ‎סַדָּנָא‎ ; Late Hebrew ‎סַד‎, plural ‎סַדִּין‎); = Latin nervus, Greek ποδοκάκη; — absolute ‎רַגְלַיִם‎‎׳‎‎שִׂים בַּמּ‎ Job 13:27 (ᵐ5 κώλύμα), Job 33:11 (ᵑ6 ξύλό); (compare synonym ‎מַהְפֶּכֶת‎, and Greek equivalent there cited).

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