Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
beneath
Usage: 1) downwards, below 1a) downwards 1b) under (of age) 1c) beneath
Mattah means “beneath” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4295 — prokeimai (“be first”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4295 מַטָּה (mattah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mattah (mat'-taw) adv. 1. downward, below or beneath 2. often adverbially with or without prefixes It has 18 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include beneath and downward. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mattah (mat'-taw) adv. 1. downward, below or beneath 2. often adverbially with or without prefixes [from H5786 with directive enclitic appended] KJV: beneath, down(-ward), less, very low, under(-neath). Root(s): H5786
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beneath
Usage: 1) downwards, below 1a) downwards 1b) under (of age) 1c) beneath
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mattah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4295.
And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4295, grouped by book.
Mattah (Strong's H4295) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "beneath". mattah (mat'-taw) adv. 1. downward, below or beneath 2. often adverbially with or without prefixes
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H4295 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4295 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as beneath and downward. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.