to stand
na.tsav describes people or things positioned upright, and also the placing or setting up of objects, markers, and assignments.
The supplied verses chiefly show persons, heavenly figures, and other things positioned upright or remaining at a location; they also show someone causing an object, marker, boundary, or group to be set in place. In several royal-administrative clauses, plural participles identify people who are over others or over work, apparently as persons placed in assigned service.
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Being positioned or remaining upright · dominant
Niphal participles describe people stationed at a place or beside someone: in Exodus 17:9 the APB renders Moses' intended position as “stand on the top of the hill,” and in Numbers 22:23 it renders the angel as “standing in the road.” The same form can describe upright or fixed physical positioning, as the waters “stood like a heap” in Exodus 15:8 and a sheaf “stood upright” in Genesis 37:7.
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Causing something to be set in place · common
Hiphil forms occur where someone places or erects a visible object: Jacob sets up a stone pillar in Genesis 35:14, Absalom sets up a pillar in 2 Samuel 18:18, and Israel sets up pillars and an Asherah in 2 Kings 17:10. The same causative pattern is used for setting signposts in Jeremiah 31:21 and fixing the peoples' borders in Deuteronomy 32:8.
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Persons assigned over service or work · occasional
Plural Niphal participles occur in administrative descriptions. In 1 Kings 4:7 the APB calls the group “officials over all Israel,” while 1 Kings 9:23 describes officials over Solomon's work who ruled the workers; 2 Chronicles 8:10 similarly places commanders in service to the king.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB commonly uses “standing,” “stood,” or “stand” for positioned persons and things, while causative contexts are rendered “set up,” “fixed,” or “set apart.” These renderings confirm the clause-level presentation rather than supplying a separate definition for every form.