מַטָּה
maṭṭâh · mat'-taw
downward, below or beneath; often adverbially with or without prefixes
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5786 (עָוַר) with directive enclitic appended;
downward, below or beneath; often adverbially with or without prefixes
- downward, below or beneath
- often adverbially with or without prefixes
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beneath, down(-ward), less, very low, under(-neath).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to surround and contain › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to surround and contain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַטָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- beneath4 · 21%
- downward3 · 16%
- underneath2 · 11%
- even downward2 · 11%
- together beneath1 · 5%
- thereof beneath1 · 5%
- and thou shalt not be beneath1 · 5%
- very1 · 5%
- low1 · 5%
- and under1 · 5%
- down1 · 5%
- us less1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.