Strong's #4307: mattara' (pronounced mat-taw-raw')

or mattarah {mat-taw-raw'}; from 5201; a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched):--mark, prison.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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maṭṭârâ' / maṭṭârâh

1) guard, ward, prison, mark, target

1a) guard, ward, prison

1b) target, mark (figuratively of chastisement)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5201

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

1 Samuel 20:20: "arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark."
Nehemiah 3:25: "high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah"
Nehemiah 12:39: "even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate."
Job 16:12: "me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark."
Jeremiah 32:2: "the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's"
Jeremiah 32:8: "to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto"
Jeremiah 32:12: "the Jews that sat in the court of the prison."
Jeremiah 33:1: "was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,"
Jeremiah 37:21: "Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread"
Jeremiah 37:21: "were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison."
Jeremiah 38:6: "of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords."
Jeremiah 38:13: "the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison."
Jeremiah 38:28: "So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 39:14: "Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah"
Jeremiah 39:15: "while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,"
Lamentations 3:12: "He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."