H4307 מַטָּרָא
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 16 KJV occurrences
מַטָּרָא
maṭṭârâʼ · mat-taw-raw'
Definition
a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched)
KJV Renderings
mark, prison.
Derivation / Etymology
or מַטָּרָה; from H5201 (נָטַר);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 16)
- 1 Samuel 20:20And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
- Nehemiah 12:39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
- Jeremiah 32:2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
- Jeremiah 32:12And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
- Jeremiah 37:21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
- Jeremiah 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
- Jeremiah 38:28So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
- Jeremiah 39:15¶ Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,