מַצֵּבָהmatstsêbâh

pillar, maƒƒ¢b¹, stump, stock, stump

Pronunciation: mats-tsay-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4676

Meanings

1.

a. pillar, as monument, personal memorial (2 Samuel 18:18)

b. a stone, set up (שׂים, הציב), and anointed as memorial of divine appearance (Genesis 28:18; Genesis 28:22; Genesis 31:13)

c. especially of sacred stones or pillars in connection with altar (Exodus 24:4; Hosea 3:4; Hosea 10:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 32 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 28:18 The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it.
  • Genesis 28:22 And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”
  • Genesis 31:13 I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.’”
  • Genesis 31:45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a monument.
  • Genesis 31:51 “See this pile of stones,” Laban continued, “and see this monument I have set between us.
  • Genesis 31:52 They stand between us as witnesses of our vows. I will never pass this pile of stones to harm you, and you must never pass these stones or this monument to harm me.
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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).