(Gate of the) Guard
מַטָּרָהStrong’s H4307mattarah (mat-ta-rah)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mattarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “guard”, “target” and “like target”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.”
Meaning
- This name means guard, prison
- Guard, ward, prison, mark, targetguard, ward, prison · target, mark (fig. of chastisement)
How it's translated
- the guard 13
- to a target 2
- like target 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 10
- Nehemiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Lamentations 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 3:25Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
- Nehemiah 12:39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
- Jeremiah 32:2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
- Jeremiah 32:8So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 32:12And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Hebrew dictionary
מַטָּרָה mattarah · (Gate of the) Guard
This name means guard, prison
מַטָּרָה mattarah · guardhouse
1) guard, ward, prison, mark, target 1a) guard, ward, prison 1b) target, mark (fig. of chastisement)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUARD, verb transitive
gard. [Latin verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware; ]
- To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety.
- To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
- To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.
- To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.
All definitions and other forms of “guard”
- To gird; to fasten by binding.
GUARD, verb intransitive
To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety. guard against mistakes, or against temptations.
GUARD, noun
[Eng. ward.]
- Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
- That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends.
- A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise.
- A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed.
- That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.
- Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
- In fencing, a posture of defense.
- An ornamental lace, hem or boarder.
GUARD'-BOAT, noun
A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to observe that their officers keep a good look-out.
GUARD'-CHAMBER, noun
A guard-room.
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.