Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4307
מַטָּרָא
mattaramat-taw-raw'
(Gate of the) Guard
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maṭṭârâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4307is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4307
a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched)
The King James renders it: mark, prison.
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
mattara is rendered "(Gate of the) Guard". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 20:20I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
1 Samuel 20:20לְמַטָּרָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's sixteen uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the guard13
- to a target2
- like the target1
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 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- הַמַּטָּרָ֔ה3
- הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃3
- הַמַּטָּרָה֒2
- הַמַּטָּרָ֖ה2
- לְמַטָּרָֽה׃2
- הַמַּטָּרָ֑ה1
- הַמַּטָּרָ֗ה1
- הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃ ס1
- כַּמַּטָּרָ֖א1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular13HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
1 Samuel
one use
I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
- לְמַטָּרָֽה׃lematarahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a target
Nehemiah
two uses
and Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh
- הַמַּטָּרָ֑הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
- הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃hamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
Job
one use
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- לְמַטָּרָֽה׃lematarahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a target
Jeremiah
eleven uses
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
- הַמַּטָּרָ֔הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
- הַמַּטָּרָה֒hamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃hamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
- הַמַּטָּרָ֖הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
- הַמַּטָּרָה֒hamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
- הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃hamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- הַמַּטָּרָ֔הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
- הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃ סhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
- הַמַּטָּרָ֔הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.
- הַמַּטָּרָ֗הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:
- הַמַּטָּרָ֖הhamatarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the guard
Lamentations
one use
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
- כַּמַּטָּרָ֖אkamatara'preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the target
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.