matsav · standing place, post

What it means

matsav (מַצָּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “standing place, post”.

The place where someone stands firm; also a post, a garrison.

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. The spot where one stands firm.
2. The office or position someone holds.
3. A post of soldiers watching a pass or place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• post ×6
• garrison ×1
• had stood ×1
• place where ×1
• position ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×1
• Isaiah×1

• Joshua 4:3

  and command them, saying, ‘Carry for yourselves from here, from the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests stood firm, twelve stones, and bring them across with you and leave them in the lodging place where you spend the night tonight.’”

• Joshua 4:9

  And twelve stones Joshua set up in the middle of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.

• 1 Samuel 13:23

  The post of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

• 1 Samuel 14:1

  And it came about one day that Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man who carried his weapons, “Come, let us cross over to the post of the Philistines that is on the other side over there.” But to his father he did not tell it.

• 1 Samuel 14:4

  Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the post of the Philistines, there was a tooth of rock on one side and a tooth of rock on the other side; the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

• 1 Samuel 14:6

  Jonathan said to the young man who carried his weapons, “Come, let us cross over to the post of these uncircumcised; perhaps YHWH will act for us, for there is no hindrance for YHWH to save by many or by few.”

• 1 Samuel 14:11

  The two of them showed themselves to the post of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves.”

• 1 Samuel 14:15

  And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the post and the destroyers trembled, they too; the earth quaked, and it became a trembling of Elohim.

• 2 Samuel 23:14

  David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

• Isaiah 22:19

  And I will thrust you from your position, and from your office he will pull you down.