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# stead

«stead» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

place

### part of speech

noun (in phrases)

### meaning for a pupil

The place or position of someone else; in someone's stead means in their place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stead/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today stead survives mainly in phrases such as in her stead; it is otherwise rare. The sentences use it as the dictionary does.

### examples

- And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. (Torah GEN.36.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stead/#x1)
- Amphion became king of Thebes in his uncle's stead. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stead/#x2)
- And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. (Torah GEN.36.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stead/#x3)

### primary record

stead

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 62 (Torah 20, tales 42, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 7.0 (Torah alone 46.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.589/)
- [And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1162/)
- [And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1163/)
- [And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1165/)
- [And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1166/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stead» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stead/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.