matsevet · standing stone

What it means

matsevet (מַצֶּבֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “standing stone”.

A stone set up as a memorial or for worship; a pillar.

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. A pillar of rock raised as a sign or memorial.
2. What remains of a felled tree.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• standing stone ×4
• stump ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• Isaiah×2

• Genesis 35:14

  Jacob set up a standing stone in the place where he had spoken with him, a standing stone of stone; he poured out a libation on it and poured oil on it.

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob set up a standing stone on her grave; it is the standing stone of Rachel’s grave to this day.

• 2 Samuel 18:18

  Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the standing stone that is in the Valley of the King, for he said, “I have no son to cause people to remember my name.” He called the standing stone by his own name, and it is called “Absalom’s Monument” to this day.

• Isaiah 6:13

  And though there is still a tenth in it, it will again be for consuming, like the terebinth and like the oak which, when cut down, leave their stump; the holy seed is its stump.”

And 2 more times.