מַטָּרָאmaṭṭârâʼ

Meanings

Same root

• נָטַרnâṭar · H5201to guard; figuratively, to cherish (anger)

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

• 1 Samuel 20:20 I will come out and shoot three arrows to the side of the stone pile as though I were shooting at a target.
• Nehemiah 3:25 Palal son of Uzai carried on the work from a point opposite the angle and the tower that projects up from the king’s upper house beside the court of the guard. Next to him were Pedaiah son of Parosh,
• Nehemiah 12:39 then past the Ephraim Gate to the Old City Gate, past the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel, and on to the Tower of the Hundred. Then we continued on to the Sheep Gate and stopped at the Guard Gate.
• Job 16:12 “I was living quietly until he shattered me. He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. Then he set me up as his target,
• Jeremiah 32:2 Jerusalem was then under siege from the Babylonian army, and Jeremiah was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace.
• Jeremiah 32:8 Then, just as the Lord had said he would, my cousin Hanamel came and visited me in the prison. He said, “Please buy my field at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. By law you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else, so buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that the message I had heard was from the Lord.