מַצָּע
matstsâʻ · H4702 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Bed, sleeping matHousehold129 verses
Meanings
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couch
A piece of furniture upon which a person reclines or lies down
ExamplesIsaiah 28:20 The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָצַרto be short 1
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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Near synonyms 3 words
- מִטָּה miṭṭâh · H4296 · couch, bed, bier
- The most common Hebrew word for bed; מִטָּה denotes a piece of furniture for sleeping or reclining, functionally synonymous with מַצָּע though מִטָּה is far more frequent in the biblical corpus.
- עֶרֶשׂ ʻeres · H6210 · bed
- Hebrew word for bed or couch, often used poetically; עֶרֶשׂ can substitute for מַצָּע in denoting a piece of furniture for resting or sleeping, though it may carry slightly more poetic register.
- מִשְׁכָּב mishkâb · H4904 · rest, lying (with) > having sex with
- Hebrew term for bed or place of lying down; מִשְׁכָּב shares the sense of a resting place or bed with מַצָּע, though it can also refer more abstractly to the act or place of lying down.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κλίνη klínē · G2825 · bed, couch, cot
- Standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew bed terminology; κλίνη is the common LXX rendering for various Hebrew bed/couch terms and denotes a piece of furniture for reclining or sleeping.
- κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life
- Greek term for bed with emphasis on the place of lying down or resting; used in LXX to translate Hebrew bed terminology, though sometimes with connotations of the marriage bed or bedroom.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Furnishings001003001001008
- The word denotes a bed, used by Isaiah in a proverbial image of a bed too short to stretch out on and a blanket too small to wrap in.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4702. matstsa מַצָּע noun masculine couch, bed; הַמּ ׳קָצַר מֵהִשְׂתָּרֵעַ Isa 28:20 the…
מַצָּע noun masculine couch, bed; הַמּ ׳קָצַר מֵהִשְׂתָּרֵעַ Isa 28:20 the bed is too short for one to stretch oneself (מַסֵּכָה coverlet in || clause)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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