Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4962
מַת
mathmath
man
22 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 H4962is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4962
properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
The King James renders it: [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.
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
math is rendered "man". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Genesis 34:30מְתֵ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twenty-two uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- men of11
- men4
- from men2
- in men of2
- men his1
- men your1
- O men of1
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 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- מְתֵ֣י8
- מְתֵי־3
- בִּמְתֵ֣י2
- מְתִ֔ם2
- מִֽמְתִ֥ים1
- מִֽמְתִ֬ים1
- מְתֵ֖י1
- מְתָ֖יו1
- מְתַ֖יִךְ1
- מְתִ֣ים1
- מְתִ֨ים׀1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)12HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
Genesis
one use
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
Deuteronomy
six uses
At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
- מְתִ֔םmetimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
- מְתִ֔םmetimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
- בִּמְתֵ֣יbimteipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in men of
You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
- בִּמְתֵ֣יbimteipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in men of
Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
- מְתָ֖יוmetavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: men his
1 Chronicles
one use
When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
Job
six uses
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- מְתִ֣יםmetimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
- מְתֵי־metei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
- מְתֵי־metei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
- מְתִ֨ים׀metimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
Psalms
four uses
from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
- מִֽמְתִ֥יםmitimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: from men
- מִֽמְתִ֬יםmitimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: from men
I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
- מְתֵי־metei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
Isaiah
three uses
Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
- מְתַ֖יִךְmetayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: men your
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- מְתֵ֖יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O men of
Jeremiah
one use
Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
- מְתֵ֣יmeteinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: men of
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.