Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
man
Usage: 1) male, man 1a) males, men 1b) few men (in prose) 1b1) less emphasis on sex 1c) men (poetic) 1c1) less emphasis on sex
Math means “men” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4962 — systrepho (“gather”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4962 מַת (math) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. math (math) n-m. 1. (properly) an adult (as of full length) 2. (by implication) a man (only in the plural) It has 21 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include few, man, friends, and full. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
math (math) n-m. 1. (properly) an adult (as of full length) 2. (by implication) a man (only in the plural) [from the same as H4970] KJV: + few, X friends, men, persons, X small. Root(s): H4970
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4962. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
man
Usage: 1) male, man 1a) males, men 1b) few men (in prose) 1b1) less emphasis on sex 1c) men (poetic) 1c1) less emphasis on sex
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render math, 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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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4962.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4962, grouped by book.
Math (Strong's H4962) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "men". math (math) n-m. 1. (properly) an adult (as of full length) 2. (by implication) a man (only in the plural)
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H4962 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4962 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as few, man, friends, and full. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.