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מַטֶּה

matteh

mat-teh'

Strong's 1890 spelling: maṭṭeh

a branch (as extending)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

rod, staff, tribe.

  • 252
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 97
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 252 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 97

  • לְמַטֵּ֣ה29
  • מַטֵּ֣ה19
  • מַטֵּ֥ה15
  • וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה11
  • לְמַטֵּ֥ה11
  • מַטֵּ֖ה9
  • מַטֵּה־7
  • מִמַּטֵּ֣ה7
  • הַמַּטּ֖וֹת6
  • וּלְמַטֵּ֥ה6
  • לְמַטֵּה־6
  • מַטֵּֽה־5

and 85 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 58

  • [the] tribe of42
  • of [the] tribe of28
  • and from [the] tribe of27
  • for [the] tribe of17
  • from [the] tribe of12
  • the tribes11
  • [the] staff of7
  • and of [the] tribe of7
  • the tribe7
  • [the] tribes of5
  • a rod5
  • to [the] tribe of5

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 22

  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)65
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)62
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)34
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural13
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular13
  • noun · masculine singular9
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular8
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)6
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular5
  • noun · feminine plural4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Ncmsc · 65
  • HNcmsc · 62
  • HC/R/Ncmsc · 34
  • HTd/Ncfpa · 13
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 13
  • HNcmsa · 9
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 8
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 7
  • HC/Ncmsc · 6
  • HNcfpc · 6
  • HR/Ncmsa · 5
  • HNcfpa · 4

All 252, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus27 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers111 occurrences
Joshua59 occurrences
1 Samuel2 occurrences
1 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles23 occurrences
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Psalms2 occurrences
Isaiah8 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel9 occurrences
Micah1 occurrence
Habakkuk2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).