Strong’s H4295 · Hebrew
מַטָּה
maṭṭâh · mat'-taw
Origin from עָוַר (H5786) with directive enclitic appended;
Meaning downward, below or beneath; often adverbially with or without prefixes
In the King James Version beneath, down(-ward), less, very low, under(-neath).
In 18 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 26:24And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
- Exodus 27:5And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
- Exodus 28:27And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
- Exodus 36:29And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
- Exodus 38:4And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
- Exodus 39:20And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
- Deuteronomy 28:13And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
- Deuteronomy 28:43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
- 2 Kings 19:30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- 1 Chronicles 27:23But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
- Proverbs 15:24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
- Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
- Isaiah 37:31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
- Jeremiah 31:37Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
- Ezekiel 1:27And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
- Ezekiel 8:2Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.