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Strong's #4962: math (pronounced math)

from the same as 4970; properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural):--+ few, X friends, men, persons, X small.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

math

1) male, man

1a) males, men

1b) few men (in prose)

1b1) less emphasis on sex

1c) men (poetic)

1c1) less emphasis on sex

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the same as H4970



Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

Genesis 34:30: "among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay"
Deuteronomy 2:34: "at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every"
Deuteronomy 3:6: "king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city."
Deuteronomy 4:27: "shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither"
Deuteronomy 26:5: "into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation,"
Deuteronomy 28:62: "And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven"
Deuteronomy 33:6: "live, and not die; and let not his men be few."
1 Chronicles 16:19: "When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers"
Job 11:3: "Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?"
Job 11:11: "he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider"
Job 19:19: "All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned"
Job 22:15: "way which wicked men have trodden?"
Job 24:12: " Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God"
Job 31:31: "If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh!"
Psalms 17:14: " From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,"
Psalms 17:14: "From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,"
Psalms 26:4: "sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers."
Psalms 105:12: "When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers"
Isaiah 3:25: " Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war."
Isaiah 5:13: "because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up"
Isaiah 41:14: "not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith"
Jeremiah 44:28: " Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt"









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