Hebrew adjective · H4295
מַטָּה
mattahmat'-taw
beneath
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maṭṭâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4295is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4295
downward, below or beneath; often adverbially with or without prefixes
The King James renders it: beneath, down(-ward), less, very low, under(-neath).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mattah is rendered "beneath". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 26:24coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
Exodus 26:24מִלְּמַטָּה֒
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's nineteen uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to downwards7
- from to downwards6
- and to downwards3
- downwards2
- beneath1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְמָ֑טָּה4
- מִלְּמַטָּה֒2
- וּלְמַ֔טָּה1
- וּלְמַ֖טָּה1
- וּלְמָ֑טָּה1
- לְמַ֥טָּה1
- לְמַ֙טָּה֙1
- לְמַֽטָּה־1
- מַ֥טָּה1
- מָֽטָּה׃1
- מָּֽטָּה׃1
- מִלְמַ֙טָּה֙1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singular7HR/Acmsa
- preposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singular6HR/R/Acmsa
- number (cardinal) · masculine singular3HAcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singular2HC/R/Acmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Acmsc
Exodus
six uses
coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
- מִלְּמַטָּה֒milematahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: from to downwards
Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
- מִלְּמָ֑טָּהmilematahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: from to downwards
Make two additional gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near its seam just above its woven waistband.
- מִלְּמַ֙טָּה֙milematahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: from to downwards
coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.
- מִלְּמַטָּה֒milematahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: from to downwards
He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
- מִלְּמַ֖טָּהmilematahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: from to downwards
They made two additional gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near the seam just above its woven waistband.
- מִלְמַ֙טָּה֙milmatahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: from to downwards
Deuteronomy
three uses
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- לְמָ֑טָּהlematahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
- מַ֥טָּהmatahnumber (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: downwards
- מָּֽטָּה׃matahnumber (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: downwards
2 Kings
one use
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- לְמָ֑טָּהlematahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
1 Chronicles
one use
David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
- וּלְמָ֑טָּהulematahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: and to downwards
2 Chronicles
one use
It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
- לְמַֽטָּה־lematah-preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
Ezra
one use
After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
- לְמַ֙טָּה֙lematahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
Proverbs
one use
The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
- מָֽטָּה׃matahnumber (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: beneath
Ecclesiastes
one use
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- לְמַ֥טָּהlematahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
Isaiah
one use
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- לְמָ֑טָּהlematahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
Jeremiah
one use
This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
- לְמָ֑טָּהlematahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: to downwards
Ezekiel
two uses
From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.
- וּלְמַ֔טָּהulematahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singulartagged: and to downwards
Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.
- וּלְמַ֖טָּהulematahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and to downwards
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.