מַטָּהmaṭṭâh
downwards
Pronunciation: mat'-taw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4295
Meanings
1. alone (Deuteronomy 28:43; Proverbs 15:24)
2. לְמַ֫טָּה
a. downwards (Deuteronomy 28:13; Isaiah 37:31; 2 Kings 19:30)
b. and downwards, and under, of space, of age (Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 17:23)
3. beneath, מִלְּמַ֫טָּה (Exodus 26:24; Exodus 36:29; Exodus 27:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 26:24 These corner frames will be matched at the bottom and firmly attached at the top with a single ring, forming a single corner unit. Make both of these corner units the same way.
- Exodus 27:5 Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.
- Exodus 28:27 And make two more gold rings and attach them to the front of the ephod, below the shoulder-pieces, just above the knot where the decorative sash is fastened to the ephod.
- Exodus 36:29 These corner frames were matched at the bottom and firmly attached at the top with a single ring, forming a single corner unit. Both of these corner units were made the same way.
- Exodus 38:4 Next he made a bronze grating and installed it halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.
- Exodus 39:20 Then they made two more gold rings and attached them to the front of the ephod, below the shoulder-pieces, just above the knot where the decorative sash was fastened to the ephod.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).