H4294 מַטֶּה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 248 KJV occurrences
מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh · mat-teh'
Definition
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)
KJV Renderings
rod, staff, tribe.
Derivation / Etymology
or (feminine) מַטָּה; from H5186 (נָטָה);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 248)
- Genesis 38:18And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
- Numbers 1:4And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
- Numbers 10:23And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- Numbers 17:9And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
- Numbers 34:28And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
- Joshua 18:11¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
- Joshua 21:20¶ And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
- 1 Chronicles 6:72And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,