Man
מַתStrong’s H4962mat
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mat is the Hebrew word usually translated “men of”, “men” and “from men”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.”
Meaning
- Male, manmales, men · few men (in prose) · men (poetic)
How it's translated
- men of 13
- men 4
- from men 2
- men his 1
- men your 1
- o men of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 6
- Job 6
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 3
- Genesis 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 2:34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
- Deuteronomy 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
- Deuteronomy 4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
- Deuteronomy 28:62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
- Deuteronomy 33:6Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
Hebrew dictionary
מַת mat · man
1) male, man 1a) males, men 1b) few men (in prose) 1b1) less emphasis on sex 1c) men (poetic) 1c1) less emphasis on sex
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “man” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAN, noun
plural men. [Heb.species, kind, image, similitude.]
- Mankind; the human race; the whole species of human beings; beings distinguished from all other animals by the powers of reason and speech, as well as by their shape and dignified aspect. 'Os homini sublime dedit.'“And God said, Let us make man in our image,, after our likeness, and let them have dominion--” Genesis 1:26“MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble” Job 14:1“My spirit shall not always strive with man” Genesis 6:3“I will destroy man whom I have created” Genesis 6:7“There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man” 1 Corinthians 10:13“It is written, man shall not live by bread alone” Matthew 4:4
- A male individual of the human race, of adult growth or years.
- A male of the human race; used often in compound words, or in the nature of an adjective; as a man-child; men-cooks; men-servants.
- A servant, or an attendant of the male sex.
All definitions
- A word of familiar address.
- It sometimes bears the sense of a male adult of some uncommon qualifications; particularly, the sense of strength, vigor, bravery, virile powers, or magnanimity, as distinguished from the weakness, timidity or impotence of a boy, or from the narrow mindedness of low bred men.“Thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth” 1 Samuel 17:33
- An individual of the human species.
- man is sometimes opposed to boy or child, and sometimes to beast.
- One who is master of his mental powers, or who conducts himself with his usual judgment.
- It is sometimes used indefinitely, without reference to a particular individual; any person; one.
- In popular usage, a husband.
- A movable piece at chess or draughts.
- In feudal law, a vassal, a liege subject or tenant.
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.