מַצָּב
matstsâb · H4673 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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A location where humans have placed themselves in an upright position (standing-place (of feet))
ExamplesJoshua 4:3 and command them, saying, ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firmly, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the encampment where you will spend the night.’”
Joshua 4:9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.
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garrison
Literally: placed (group of people); hence: a body of troops
Examples1 Samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the gorge of Michmash.
1 Samuel 14:1 Now the day came that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come, and let’s cross over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.
1 Samuel 14:4 Now between the gorges by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistines’ garrison there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other, Seneh.
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office, position
Literally: placed; hence: state in which humans have been assigned a certain role
ExamplesIsaiah 22:19 “I will depose you from your office, And I will pull you down from your position.
How it’s used In 4 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
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- פְּלִשְׁתִּיPhilistine 5
- עָרֵלuncircumcised person 1
- רֶגֶלfoot, leg 1
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵבֶרbeyond, side, across 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- אֵלto, toward 6
- מִןfrom 3
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 2
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.
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Semantic domains 4 entries
- Space002002001017
- מַצָּב denotes a standing place, as with the place in the Jordan where the priests' feet stood firm while carrying the ark.
- Groups001001003004
- מַצָּב denotes a garrison as a collective military body, as with the Philistines' garrison Jonathan sets out to cross over to.
- Soldiers001001003013
- מַצָּב denotes the garrisoned soldiers themselves, the military outpost stationed at Michmash and elsewhere.
- Role002002002008
- This domain is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which describe a standing place or garrison rather than an office or function.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4673. matstsab מַצָּב noun masculine1Sa 13:23 standing-place, station, garrison; — ׳מ…
מַצָּב noun masculine1Sa 13:23 standing-place, station, garrison; — ׳מ absolute 1Sa 14:15, construct מַצַּב Jos 4:3, Jos 4:9 + (Baer in Sm מַצָּב, compare on 1Sa 13:23, but see Ginsb); suffix מַצָּבֶ֫ךָ Isa 22:19; —
1 standing-place of feetJosh Isa 4:3; Isaiah 4:9 (JE).
2 station, office Isa 22:19 (|| מַעֲמָד).
3 garrison, post, or outpost (of Philistines) 1Sa 13:23; 1Sa 14:1, 1Sa 14:4, 1Sa 14:6, 1Sa 14:11, 1Sa 14:15; 2Sa 23:14; so read also 1Sa 14:12 (for מַצָּבָה ᵑ0) ᵐ5 Th We Bu HPS.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
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