Pillar
מַצֶּבֶתStrong’s H4678matstsevet (mats-tse-vet)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matstsevet is the Hebrew word usually translated “pillar of”, “pillar” and “stump”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.”
Meaning
- Pillar, mastaba, stumppillar · (Hoph) stock, stump (of tree)
How it's translated
- a pillar of 1
- pillar of 1
- a pillar 1
- the pillar 1
- a stump 1
- stump its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 35:20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
- 2 Samuel 18:18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.
- Isaiah 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
מַצֶּבֶת matstsevet · pillar
1) pillar, mastaba, stump 1a) pillar 1a1) as monument, personal memorial 1a2) with an altar 1b) (Hoph) stock, stump (of tree)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pillar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIL'LAR, noun
[Latin pila, a pile, a pillar a mortar and pestle. The Latin pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.]
- A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column.
- A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9
- A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.“And Jacob set a pillar on her grave” Genesis 35:20
- Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26“So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire” Exodus 13:21
All definitions
- Foundation; support. Job 9:6
- In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.
- In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
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.