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:

ּ / ּ

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:

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