Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4971
מַתְכֹנֶת
mathkonethmath-ko'-neth
tally
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mathkôneth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4971is 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) · H4971
proportion (in size, number or ingredients)
The King James renders it: composition, measure, state, tale.
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
mathkoneth is rendered "tally". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 5:8But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
Exodus 5:8מַתְכֹּ֨נֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five 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
- measurement its2
- and in proportion its1
- in proportion its1
- measurement 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַתְּנָא | mattena | gift | Uses3 |
| מַתְבֵּן | mathben | straw | Uses1 |
| מַתְּלָאָה | mattelaah | weariness | Usesnot recorded |
All 5, 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
- בְּמַ֨תְכֻּנְתָּ֔הּ1
- וּבְמַ֨תְכֻּנְתּ֔וֹ1
- מַתְכֹּ֨נֶת1
- מַתְכֻּנְתּ֖וֹ1
- מַתְכֻּנְתּֽוֹ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
Exodus
three uses
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
- מַתְכֹּ֨נֶתmatkonetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: measurement of
It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.
- וּבְמַ֨תְכֻּנְתּ֔וֹuvematkuntoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and in proportion its
You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD.
- בְּמַ֨תְכֻּנְתָּ֔הּbematkuntahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in proportion its
2 Chronicles
one use
So the workmen labored, and in their hands the repair work progressed. They restored the house of God according to its specifications, and they reinforced it.
- מַתְכֻּנְתּ֖וֹmatkuntonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: measurement its
Ezekiel
one use
The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
- מַתְכֻּנְתּֽוֹ׃matkuntonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: measurement 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.
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.