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# מַטָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4295

**downwards** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

downwards [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4295/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַ֫טָּה: adv. downwards [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4295/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. downwards (from \[מַט\] for \[מַטֶּה\] a place of declension (cf. נָטֶה, 3 a), with ה—ָ loc., Ol222 b Köii. 260: cf. the opp. מַ֫עְלָה, sub עָלָה):— alone, Dt 28:43 and thou shalt descend מַ֫טָּה מָ֑֫טָּה downwards, downwards, i.e. lower and lower, Pr 15:24 לְמַעַן סוּר מִשְּׁאוֹל מ׳. לְמַ֫טָּה: downwards Dt 28:13 וְלֹא תִהְיֶה למ׳, Is 37:31 = 2 K 19:30 שֹׁרֶשׁ למ׳ (cf. Ph CISI. i. 2, 11 f. אל יכן לם שׁרשׁ למט ופר למעל let them not have root downwards, or fruit upwards), Je 31:37; Ec 3:21 2 Ch 32:30; Ezr 9:13 כי אתה חָשַׂכְתָּ לְמַ֫טָּה מֵעֲוֹנֵנוּ either (Be) hast kept back, downward, part of our iniquity (prevented it from appearing, and being counted against us), or, held us (Ges), or thy anger (Ke), back, below (cf. לְמַ֫עְלָה מֵעַל above, 2 Ch 34:4) our iniq. (punished us less than our iniq. deserved). וּלְמַ֫טָּה, (a) of space, and downwards, Ez 1:27 וּמִמַּרְאֵה מָתְנָיו ול׳, 8:2; (b) of age, and under, 1 Ch 27:23 לְמִבֶּן עשׂרים שׁנה ול׳. מִלְּמַ֫טָּה beneath (v. מִן 9 a: opp. מִלְמַעְלָה above), Ex 26:24 = 36:29, 27:5 = 38:4, 38:27 = 39:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: downwards (18); beneath (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.24/#tree)

אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים לְמַ֣עְלָה לְמַשְׂכִּ֑יל לְמַ֥עַן ס֝֗וּר מִשְּׁא֥וֹל מָֽטָּה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].path of.life \[is\] upward upwards for \[one.who\].acts.prudently so.as to.turn.aside from Sheol beneath

*JPS 1917:* The path of life goeth upward for the wise, that he may depart from the nether-world beneath.

[2 Kings 19:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.30/#tree)

וְיָ֨סְפָ֜ה פְּלֵיטַ֧ת בֵּית־יְהוּדָ֛ה הַנִּשְׁאָרָ֖ה שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ לְמָ֑טָּה וְעָשָׂ֥ה פְרִ֖י לְמָֽעְלָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.add the.escaped.remnant of.the.house of.Judah \[which\] remains a.root (to) downwards and it.will.produce fruit (to) upwards

*JPS 1917:* And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4295.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4295/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).