Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4673
מַצָּב
matstsabmats-tsawb'
station
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: matstsâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4673is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4673
a fixed spot; figuratively, an office, a military post
The King James renders it: garrison, station, place where...stood.
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
matstsab is rendered "station". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Six of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 4:3and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
Joshua 4:3מִמַּצַּב֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- garrison of5
- and a garrison of1
- from office your1
- from standing-place of1
- standing-place of1
- the garrison1
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.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- מַצַּ֣ב3
- מַצַּב֙2
- הַמַּצָּב֙1
- וּמַצַּ֣ב1
- מִמַּצַּב֙1
- מִמַּצָּבֶ֑ךָ1
- מַצַּ֖ב1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Joshua
two uses
and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
- מִמַּצַּב֙mimatzavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from standing-place of
Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.
- מַצַּב֙matzavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: standing-place of
1 Samuel
six uses
And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.
- מַצַּ֣בmatzavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: garrison of
One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.
- מַצַּ֣בmatzavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: garrison of
Now there were cliffs on both sides of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine outpost. One was named Bozez and the other Seneh.
- מַצַּ֣בmatzavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: garrison of
Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”
- מַצַּב֙matzavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: garrison of
So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
- מַצַּ֖בmatzavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: garrison of
Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.
- הַמַּצָּב֙hamatzavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the garrison
2 Samuel
one use
At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was at Bethlehem.
- וּמַצַּ֣בumatzavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a garrison of
Isaiah
one use
I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.
- מִמַּצָּבֶ֑ךָmimatzavekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from office your
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 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.