מַת mat
Hebrew word for “man” · Strong’s H4962 · used 22 times in 21 verses
Meaning
1) male, man; 1a) males, men; 1b) few men (in prose); 1b1) less emphasis on sex; 1c) men (poetic); 1c1) less emphasis on sex
How it is translated
Glosses given for mat in context, with how often each is used:
- men 21
- will be men 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deuteronomy | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Job | 6 | 0.7 | |
| Psalms | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 |
Chapters where it is used most
Job 11 (2), Genesis 34 (1), Deuteronomy 2 (1), Deuteronomy 3 (1), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Deuteronomy 26 (1), Deuteronomy 28 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1), 1 Chronicles 16 (1), Job 19 (1)
Forms
- מתי 12
- מתם 2
- במתי 2
- מתים 2
- ממתים 2
- מתיו 1
- מתיך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with mat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מִסְפָּר mispar “number” 6
- מְעַט meat “little” 4
- גּוּר gur “to sojourn” 4
- שָׁאַר shaar “to remain” 3
- טַף taph “child” 2
- חָרַם charam “to devote/destroy” 2
- שָׁוְא shav “vanity” 2
- אָוֶן aven “evil” 2
- שָׂבֵעַ sava “to satisfy” 2
- שָׁם sham “there” 3
- עִיר ir “city” 3
- יַעֲקֹב yaaqov “Jacob” 2
Key verses
The verses using mat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I…
- Deuteronomy 4:27 — And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- Deuteronomy 26:5 — And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and…
- Job 11:3 — Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 11:11 — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Job 24:12 — Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
- Job 31:31 — If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
- Psalms 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid they are full of…
- Psalms 26:4 — I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Isaiah 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- Isaiah 41:14 — Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 44:28 — Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the…
See all 21 verses in the Word Atlas
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.