Mattah מַ֫טָּה

Mattah (Hebrew מַ֫טָּה, Strong's H4295) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “beneath”. It occurs 19 times in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Mattah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 26:24
  And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
• Exodus 27:5
  And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
• Exodus 28:27
  And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.Make two additional gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near its seam just above its woven waistband.
• Exodus 36:29
  And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.
• Exodus 38:4
  And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
• Exodus 39:20
  And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.They made two additional gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near the seam just above its woven waistband.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 28:13
  And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
• Deuteronomy 28:43
  The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 19:30
  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 27:23
  But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 32:30
  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.

Ezra

• Ezra 9:13
  And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

Proverbs

• Proverbs 15:24
  The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 3:21
  Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Isaiah

• Isaiah 37:31
  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 31:37
  Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 1:27
  And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.
• Ezekiel 8:2
  Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).