Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4678
מַצֶּבֶת
matstsebethmats-tseh'-beth
pillar
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4678is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4678
something stationary, i.e. a monumental stone; also the stock of atree
The King James renders it: pillar, substance.
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
matstsebeth is rendered "pillar". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 35:14So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
Genesis 35:14מַצֶּ֣בֶת
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
- a pillar1
- a pillar of1
- a stump1
- pillar of1
- stump its1
- to the pillar1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- מַצֶּ֣בֶת2
- לַמַּצֶּ֙בֶת֙1
- מַצֶּ֥בֶת1
- מַצֶּ֙בֶת֙1
- מַצַּבְתָּֽהּ׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Genesis
two uses
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- מַצֶּ֣בֶתmatzevetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pillar of
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
- מַצֶּ֥בֶתmatzevetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pillar of
2 Samuel
two uses
During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
- מַצֶּ֙בֶת֙matzevetnoun · feminine singulartagged: a pillar
- לַמַּצֶּ֙בֶת֙lamatzevetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the pillar
Isaiah
two uses
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
- מַצֶּ֣בֶתmatzevetnoun · feminine singulartagged: a stump
- מַצַּבְתָּֽהּ׃ פmatzavtahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: stump its
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.