סָעַד

Genesis 18:5 וְסַעֲד֤וּ and sustain <you>

And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”

Judges 19:5 סְעָ֧ד sustain

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”

Judges 19:8 סְעָד־ sustain

On the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girl’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

1 Kings 13:7 וּֽסְעָ֑דָה and sustain !

Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

Psalm 18:35 תִסְעָדֵ֑נִי it has supported me

You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.

Here: To prop up, hold up, keep going. The same verb is used for bread that 'sustains' a weary traveller (Gen 18:5) and for holding up someone who is slipping (Ps 94:18). The verb form can mean 'held me up' in the battle or 'holds me up' as an ongoing fact.

Psalm 20:2 יִסְעָדֶֽךָּ׃ may he support you

May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.

Psalm 41:3 יִ֭סְעָדֶנּוּ he will sustain him

The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

Here: "He will hold him up" (or "may he hold him up"). The word pictures propping up something that would otherwise sag, and it is used of food that keeps a person going. Here Yahweh keeps the weakened man from collapsing while he lies ill.

Psalm 94:18 יִסְעָדֵֽנִי׃ it supported me

If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.

Here: 'It held me up / props me up.' The verb means to give physical or bodily support, the way a hand steadies someone or food strengthens a weak body. The verb form here usually describes ongoing or repeated action. Read together with 'when I said', it can mean 'held me up at that time' or 'holds me up whenever this happens.'

Psalm 104:15 יִסְעָֽד׃ it sustains

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Here: 'Props up, holds up'. With 'heart' it is a fixed phrase for taking a meal to restore your strength (Genesis 18:5; Judges 19:5, 8). Bread keeps a person on their feet. The verb is held back to the end of the line, so the verse ends on 'sustains'.

Psalm 119:117 סְעָדֵ֥נִי uphold me

Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.

Proverbs 20:28 וְסָעַ֖ד and he sustains

Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.

Here: To brace or hold something up, like food strengthening a body or a hand steadying someone. The king is most naturally the subject: he holds up his own throne.

Isaiah 9:7 וּֽלְסַעֲדָ֔הּ and to sustain it

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Here: 'And to prop it up, sustain it.' This is a concrete word for holding something up so it does not fall (Ps 18:35; 94:18), or for keeping someone going with food (Gen 18:5). Proverbs 20:28 uses it of a throne 'upheld by steadfast love'.