Strong's #4294: matteh (pronounced mat-teh')
or (feminine) mattah {mat-taw'}; from 5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread):--rod, staff, tribe.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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maṭṭeh / maṭṭâh
1) staff, branch, tribe
1a) staff, rod, shaft
1b) branch (of vine)
1c) tribe
1c1) company led by chief with staff (originally)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5186
Usage:
This word is used 251 times:
1 Samuel 14:27: "charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand,"
1 Samuel 14:43: "I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo,"
1 Kings 7:14: "He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man"
1 Kings 8:1: "and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel,"
1 Chronicles 6:60: " And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs,"
1 Chronicles 6:61: "of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe,"
1 Chronicles 6:61: "of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh,"
1 Chronicles 6:62: "And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:62: "throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:62: "out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali,"
1 Chronicles 6:62: "and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:63: "of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:63: "throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:63: "out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,"
1 Chronicles 6:65: "And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:65: "out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon,"
1 Chronicles 6:65: "of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children"
1 Chronicles 6:66: "of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim."
1 Chronicles 6:70: "And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam"
1 Chronicles 6:71: "of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan"
1 Chronicles 6:72: " And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath"
1 Chronicles 6:74: " And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,"
1 Chronicles 6:76: " And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kadesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon"
1 Chronicles 6:77: "Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon"
1 Chronicles 6:78: "Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben,"
1 Chronicles 6:80: " And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim"
1 Chronicles 12:31: "And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which"
2 Chronicles 5:2: "of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel,"
Psalms 105:16: "the land: he broke the whole staff of bread."
Psalms 110:2: "The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst"
Isaiah 9:4: "the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day"
Isaiah 10:5: "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation."
Isaiah 10:15: "should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood."
Isaiah 10:24: "of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt."
Isaiah 10:26: "of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner"
Isaiah 14:5: "The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers."
Isaiah 28:27: "but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod."
Isaiah 30:32: "And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon"
Jeremiah 48:17: "say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!"
Ezekiel 4:16: "of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread"
Ezekiel 5:16: "you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:"
Ezekiel 7:10: "it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded."
Ezekiel 7:11: "Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude,"
Ezekiel 14:13: "mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off"
Ezekiel 19:11: "And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted"
Ezekiel 19:12: "dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed"
Ezekiel 19:14: "And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath"
Ezekiel 19:14: "her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This"
Micah 6:9: "shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed"
Habakkuk 3:9: "Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave"
