Broom
מַטְאֲטֵאStrong’s H4292matate (mat-a-te)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Matate is the Hebrew word usually translated “broom of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Meaning
- Broom, besom
How it's translated
- with a broom of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַטְאֲטֵא matate · broom
broom, besom
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “broom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROOM,noun
- A plant of several species, called dyer's weed, being used by dyers to give a yellow color, dyer's broom green wood, or wood waxen, dwarf broom all belonging to the genus Genista. broom rape is Orobanche, and with large purple flowers, Lathroea.
- A besom, or brush with a long handle for sweeping floors; so called from being originally made of the broom-plant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.