mata · below, downward

What it means

mata (מַטָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “below, downward”.

Beneath.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Toward the lower part, or from a certain age downward.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• below ×8
• downward ×5
• down ×2
• lower ×2
• under ×1
• underneath ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Exodus 26:24

  They shall be doubled from below, and together they shall be complete at its top, at the first ring; so it shall be for both of them; they shall form the two corners.

• Exodus 27:5

  You shall put it under the ledge of the altar, below, so that the network reaches halfway up the altar.

• Exodus 28:27

  You shall make two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, low down, on its front, close to its seam, above the woven band of the ephod.

• Exodus 36:29

  And they were double from below, and together they were complete to its top, at the one ring; so he made for both of them, for the two corners.

• Exodus 38:4

  And he made for the altar a grating, a work of network of bronze, under its ledge, from below up to its middle.

• Exodus 39:20

  And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below, at its front, close to its joining, above the woven band of the ephod.

• Deuteronomy 28:13

  And YHWH will make you the head and not the tail; and you will be only on top and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of YHWH your Elohim that I am commanding you today, to keep and to do them,

• Deuteronomy 28:43

  The resident alien who is in your midst will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

• 2 Kings 19:30

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• 1 Chronicles 27:23

  But David did not take the number of those from twenty years old and under, for YHWH had said he would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah stopped up the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his work.

• Ezra 9:13

  And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, for you, our Elohim, have held back punishment below our iniquity, and have given us escapees like these,

• Proverbs 15:24

  The path of life leads upward for the prudent, so that he may turn away from Sheol below.

• Ecclesiastes 3:21

  Who knows the breath of human beings, the one that goes up upward, and the breath of the beast, the one that goes down downward to the earth?

• Isaiah 37:31

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• Jeremiah 31:37

  Thus says YHWH: “If the heavens can be measured above, and the foundations of the earth searched out below, then also I will reject all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 1:27

  And I saw something like the gleam of shining metal, like the appearance of fire enclosing it all around, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

• Ezekiel 8:2

  And I looked, and look, a likeness like the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, like the appearance of radiance, like the gleam of shining metal.

And 1 more times.