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מַת (mat) means “man” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מַת Hebrew · H4962 22 tagged occurrences in 21 verses

Pronunciation guide: math Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4962

מַת · mat · man

1) male, man 1a) males, men 1b) few men (in prose) 1b1) less emphasis on sex 1c) men (poetic) 1c1) less emphasis on sex

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from the same as H4970 (מָתַי); properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)

KJV glosses: [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.

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How translators render H4962

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
few 3
men 3
the men 2
and only a few of you 1
are few 1
from men 1
from such men 1
his men 1
in number 1
my best friends 1
o few men 1
of men 1
put others 1
the people 1
your men 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
men 5
few 2
from men 2
the men 2
a few men 1
friends 1
his men 1
if the men 1
in number 1
persons 1
there with 1
thy men 1
when ye were but few 1
ye men 1
yet a small 1

Verses containing H4962

Page 1 of 1. 21 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 34:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

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  2. Deuteronomy 2:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

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  3. Deuteronomy 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

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  4. Deuteronomy 4:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

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  5. Deuteronomy 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

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  6. Deuteronomy 28:62 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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  7. Deuteronomy 33:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

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  8. 1 Chronicles 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

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  9. Job 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

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  10. Job 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

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  11. Job 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

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  12. Job 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

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  13. Job 24:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

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  14. Job 31:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

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  15. Psalms 17:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

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  16. Psalms 26:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

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  17. Psalms 105:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

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  18. Isaiah 3:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

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  19. Isaiah 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

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  20. Isaiah 41:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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  21. Jeremiah 44:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

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