מַת
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properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H4970 (מָתַי);
properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
- properly, an adult (as of full length)
- by implication, a man (only in the plural)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the mark, the covenant sign
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַת 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- men5 · 23%
- the men2 · 9%
- from men2 · 9%
- and i being few1 · 5%
- few1 · 5%
- there with1 · 5%
- in number1 · 5%
- and let not his men1 · 5%
- when ye were but few1 · 5%
- friends1 · 5%
- if the men1 · 5%
- persons1 · 5%
- when they were but a few men1 · 5%
- thy men1 · 5%
- and ye men1 · 5%
- yet a small1 · 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.