Plantation
מַטָּעStrong’s H4302matta (mat-ta)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matta is the Hebrew word usually translated “planting my”, “planting of” and “planting its”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.”
Meaning
- Place or act of planting, planting, plantationplanting place · act of planting · plantation
How it's translated
- planting my 1
- planting of 1
- planting its 1
- planting place its 1
- a planting place 1
- into a planting place of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
- Ezekiel 17:7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
- Ezekiel 31:4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
- Ezekiel 34:29And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
- Micah 1:6Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
מַטָּע matta · plantation
1) place or act of planting, planting, plantation 1a) planting place 1b) act of planting 1c) plantation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plantation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLANTA'TION, noun
[Latin plantatio, from planto, to plant.]
- The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth.
- The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees, as an orchard or the like.
- In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm.
- An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted.
All definitions and other forms of “plantation”
- A colony.
- A first planting; introduction; establishment; as the plantation of christianity in England.
PLANT'-CANE, noun
In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.
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.