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# מַטְרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4309

**Matri** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Matri [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4309/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַטְרִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4309/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. only c. art. as subst. coll. הַמּ׳ 1 S 10:21 a + v 21b 𝔊 The We Klo Dr Kit Bu HPS. 𝔊 Ματταρι.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 10:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.10.21/#tree)

וַיַּקְרֵ֞ב אֶת־שֵׁ֤בֶט בִּנְיָמִן֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔יו וַתִּלָּכֵ֖ד מִשְׁפַּ֣חַת הַמַּטְרִ֑י וַיִּלָּכֵד֙ שָׁא֣וּל בֶּן־קִ֔ישׁ וַיְבַקְשֻׁ֖הוּ וְלֹ֥א נִמְצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.near (et) the.tribe of.Benjamin to families its and it.was.taken.by.lot the.clan of.(the) Matri and he.was.taken.by.lot Saul the.son of.Kish and they sought.him and not he.was.found

*JPS 1917:* And he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families, and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken; but when they sought him, he could not be found.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4309/): 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).