eRhema Explore
Word

מַטָּע

maṭṭâʻ · H4302 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

See all 6 in Search

Meanings

  1. planting

    Action of placing a seed or small plant in the ground so that it will grow and produce used symbolically to describe God's act of giving the people of Israel their own land, as promised to their ancestors

    Examples

    Isaiah 60:21 “Then all your people will be righteous; They will possess the land forever, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

    Isaiah 61:3 To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The cloak of praise instead of a disheartened spirit. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

    Ezekiel 17:7 “But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine turned its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was planted, so that he might water it.

  2. plantation

    Literally: planting; hence: the place where certain plants or trees have been planted

    Examples

    Ezekiel 31:4 ‘The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

    Ezekiel 34:29 “I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 2 entries
Plant002002001014
מַטָּע names a planting or plantation, a cultivated growth of trees or vines, as in Isaiah's image of "the planting of the LORD" (Isaiah 61:3).
Landscapes001002004
The word also denotes the planted ground itself as a landscape feature, the cultivated area rather than the plants growing in it.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָטַע nâṭaʻ · H5193 · to plant, to pitch (a tent) · 58×מַטָּעmaṭṭâʻ · H4302נֶטַע neṭaʻ · H5194 · plant, to plant · 4×נָטִיעַ nâṭîyaʻ · H5195 · plant · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4302. matta מַטָּע noun masculine place, or act of planting; plantation; — absolute ׳מ…
H4302. matta
מַטָּע noun masculine place, or act of planting; plantation; — absolute ׳מ Eze 34:29; construct מַטַּע Isa 61:3; suffix מַטָּעוֺ Isa 60:21 (Kt; Qr מַטָּעַי); מַטָּעָהּ Eze 17:7, also Eze 31:4, but read ᵐ5 מַטָּעֹה Hi Co Berthol Toy; plural construct מַטָּעֵי Mic 1:6; —
1 planting-place, כָ֑רֶם מַטָּעֵי Mic 1:6 planting-place for a vineyard, so Eze 31:4 (read מַטָּעֹה, see above); probably also ׳מ לְשֵׁם < read ᵐ5 ׳מ שָׁלֹם Co Berthol Toy i.e. peaceful (fruitful) planting-place; compare מ ׳עֲרֻגוֺת Eze 17:7 = beds where it was planted.
2 act of planting מ ׳נֵצֶר Isa 60:21 shoot of his (my) planting (figurative of people).
3 ׳מ ׳י Isa 61:3 plantation of ׳י (id.).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Landscapes2 occurrencesPlant4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.