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:
Habakkuk 3:14: "Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as"
