mat · men

What it means

mat (מַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “men”.

"Men of number" means few, easily counted.

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. People counted by their number, nearly always few.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• men ×17
• few ×4
• number ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×6
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I have few men; if they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Deuteronomy 2:34

  We captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones; we left no survivor.

• Deuteronomy 3:6

  We devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones.

• Deuteronomy 4:27

  YHWH will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which YHWH will lead you.

• Deuteronomy 26:5

  And you shall answer and say before YHWH your Elohim, “A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, with few men, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.

• Deuteronomy 28:62

  And you will be left few in number, whereas you were like the stars of the heavens in multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 33:6

  Let Reuben live and not die, and let his men be a number.”

• 1 Chronicles 16:19

  when you were few in number, very few, and resident aliens in it.

• Job 11:3

  Shall your idle talk silence men? Shall you mock, and there be none to put you to shame?

• Job 11:11

  For he knows empty men, and he sees wickedness; will he not consider it?

• Job 19:19

  All the men of my intimate counsel abhor me, and these whom I loved have turned against me.

• Job 22:15

  Will you keep the ancient path that the men of wickedness have trodden,

• Job 24:12

  From the city men groan, and the soul of the wounded calls for help; yet Eloah does not count it as impropriety.

• Job 31:31

  if the men of my tent did not say, ‘Who can find one not filled with his meat?’

• Psalms 17:14

  from men, by your hand, YHWH, from men of the world, whose share is in life; and with what you have stored up you fill their belly; the sons are satisfied and leave their remainder to their little ones.

• Psalms 26:4

  I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor do I go in with those who hide themselves.

• Psalms 105:12

  when they were few in number, very few, and resident aliens in it.

• Isaiah 3:25

  Your men will fall by the sword, and your might in battle.

• Isaiah 5:13

  Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; and its glory are men of hunger, and its multitude parched with thirst.

• Isaiah 41:14

  Do not fear, worm of Jacob, men of Israel; I help you, declares YHWH, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

• Jeremiah 44:28

  And those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to reside as aliens there will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

And 1 more times.