מַצֵּבָה matstsevah

Hebrew word for “pillar” · Strong’s H4676 · used 32 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

1) pillar, mastaba, stump; 1a) pillar; 1a1) as monument, personal memorial; 1a2) with an altar; 1b)(Hoph) stock, stump (of tree)

How it is translated

Glosses given for matstsevah in context, with how often each is used:

• sacred pillars 15
• pillar 10
• sacred pillar 4
• pillars 2
• will be a pillar 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 31 (4), Genesis 28 (2), Genesis 35 (2), 2 Kings 10 (2), Hosea 10 (2), Exodus 23 (1), Exodus 24 (1), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), Deuteronomy 7 (1)

Forms

• מצבה 9
• מצבות 4
• המצבה 3
• המצבות 3
• מצבתם 2
• ומצבה 2
• ומצבות 2
• מצבת 2
• מצבתיהם 1
• ומצבתם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with matstsevah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֲשֵׁרָה asherah “Asherah” 9
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 9
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 9
• נָתַץ natats “to tear” 5
• גָּדַע gada “to cut down/off” 4
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 5
• בָּמָה bamah “high place” 4
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 4
• יַעֲקֹב yaaqov “Jacob” 5
• פָּסִיל pesil “idol” 3
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 4
• בַּעַל baal “Baal” 3

Key verses

The verses using matstsevah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 23:24 — Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
• Exodus 24:4 — And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve…
• Exodus 34:13 — But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
• Leviticus 26:1 — Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto…
• Deuteronomy 7:5 — But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
• Deuteronomy 12:3 — And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and…
• 1 Kings 14:23 — For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
• 2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the…
• 2 Chronicles 31:1 — Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and…
• Hosea 3:4 — For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and…
• Hosea 10:1 — Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness…
• Hosea 10:2 — Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.