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מַטֶּה

mat.teh · tribe

Hebrew · Strong's H4294 · Noun · Sounds like: mat-teh' · 252 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • tribe H4294H 184
  • tribe: rod H4294G · a Meaning of 56
  • tribe: stick H4294J · a Meaning of 5
  • tribe: supply H4294K · a Meaning of 5
  • tribe: arrow H4294I · a Meaning of 2

Strong's dictionary

or (feminine) מַטָּה; from נָטָה; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread); rod, staff, tribe.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַטֶּה 251 n.m.
1. staff, rod, shaft
2. branch
3. tribe

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Chronicles 6:71 מַטֵּ֣ה ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Unto the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;

  2. 1 Chronicles 6:72 וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה u.mi.ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,

  3. 1 Chronicles 6:74 וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה u.mi.ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,

  4. 1 Chronicles 6:76 וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה u.mi.ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs.

  5. 1 Chronicles 6:77 מִמַּטֵּ֣ה mi.ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Unto the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;

  6. 1 Chronicles 6:78 מִמַּטֵּ֣ה mi.ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,

  7. 1 Chronicles 6:80 וּמִ֨מַּטֵּה־ u.Mi.ma.teh- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,

  8. 1 Chronicles 12:31 מַטֵּ֣ה ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.

  9. 2 Chronicles 5:2 הַמַּטּ֜וֹת ha.ma.Tot · A person, place or thing

    Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

  10. Psalms 105:16 מַטֵּה־ ma.teh- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

  11. Psalms 110:2 מַטֵּֽה־ ma.teh- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

  12. Isaiah 9:4 מַטֵּ֣ה ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

  13. Isaiah 10:5 וּמַטֶּה־ u.ma.teh- · A person, place or thing

    Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

  14. Isaiah 10:15 מַטֶּ֖ה ma.Teh · A person, place or thing

    Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.

  15. Isaiah 10:24 וּמַטֵּ֥הוּ u.ma.Te.hu · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

  16. Isaiah 10:26 וּמַטֵּ֙הוּ֙ u.ma.Te.hu · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

  17. Isaiah 14:5 מַטֵּ֣ה ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;

  18. Isaiah 28:27 בַמַּטֶּ֛ה va.ma.Teh · A person, place or thing

    For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

  19. Isaiah 30:32 מַטֵּ֣ה ma.Teh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with the sound of tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing of his arm will he fight with them.

  20. Jeremiah 48:17 מַטֵּה־ ma.teh- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    All ye that are round about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!

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