מַטָּע

mata · planting, plantation

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4302 · appears 6 times in the Bible

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What it means

mata (מַטָּע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “planting, plantation”.

A planting: the place planted (a garden or vineyard) or what is planted.

How to say it

ma·ta

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. Ground where something has been planted; and the people God plants.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Isaiah 60:21

    And your people, all of them, will be righteous; forever they will possess the land, the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, to glorify myself.

  • Isaiah 61:3

    to appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; and they will be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, to glorify himself.

  • Ezekiel 17:7

    And there was another great eagle, great of wings and full of feathers; and look, this vine bent its roots toward it, and sent out its branches toward it, so that it might water it, from the beds of its planting.

  • Ezekiel 31:4

    The waters made it grow, the deep made it high; her streams went around her planting, and her conduits she sent out to all the trees of the field.

  • Ezekiel 34:29

    And I will raise up for them a planting of renown, and they will no longer be consumed by famine in the land, nor will they bear any longer the disgrace of the nations.

  • Micah 1:6

    “And I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, a place for planting a vineyard; and I will pour down into the valley her stones, and her foundations I will lay bare.