Mantle
מַעֲטֶהStrong’s H4594maateh (ma-a-teh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maateh is the Hebrew word usually translated “mantle of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“To 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.”
Meaning
- Wrap, mantle
How it's translated
- a mantle of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲטֶה maateh · mantle
wrap, mantle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mantle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAN'TLE, noun
[Gr. a cloke.]
- A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments.
- A cover.
- A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity.
All definitions and other forms of “mantle”
MAN'TLE, verb transitive
To cloke; to cover; to disguise.
MAN'TLE, verb intransitive
To expand; to spread.
- To joy; to revel.
- To be expanded; to be spread or extended.
- To gather over and form a cover; to collect on the surface, as a covering.
- To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color.
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.