Joshua 21:5:8Josh.21.5.W8TAB
מַטֵּ֧ה
matte
“of the tribe”
- Transliteration
- mat-TE
- Extended
- maht-TEH
- IPA
- /matˈteː/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the tribe
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Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
mat-TE
- phraseyour reading level
u-me-kha-TZI mat-TE me-na-SHE
- sentence
ve-li-vnei ke-HAT ha-no-ta-RIM mi-mish-pe-KHOT mat-TE-E-fra-YIM u-mi-mat-TE-DAN u-me-kha-TZI mat-TE me-na-SHE ba-go-RAL a-RIM a-SER
Exegesis
The repeated construct chain mi-mishpechot {מִמִּשְׁפְּחֹות | mim-miš-pə-ḥōt} ‘from the families of’ with matteh {מַטֵּה | maṯ-tê} ‘tribe’ establishes a distributive genitive for Ephraim, Dan, and half Manasseh.
Root and etymology
consonantsnun–tet–heh
“stretch out”
In context — Joshua 21:5
And to the sons of Kohath, the remaining ones , by lot ten cities were allotted from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and from the tribe of Dan, and from half the tribe of Manasseh.
About this coordinate
Joshua 21:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Joshua 21:5, so the Hebrew word מַטֵּ֧ה (matte) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Josh.21.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.21.5.W8.S1) and character.