Numbers 17:2:7Num.17.2.W7TABWLC Numbers 17:17
מַטֶּה
mateh
“a staff”
- Transliteration
- ma-TEH
- Extended
- mah-TEH
- IPA
- /maˈte/
Meaning by language
- English
- a staff
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ma-TEH
- phraseyour reading level
ma-TEH ma-TEH le-VEIT AV me-ET kol-ne-si-EI-hem
- clause
ma-TEH ma-TEH le-VEIT AV me-ET kol-ne-si-EI-hem le-VEIT a-vo-TAM
- sentence
da-BER el-be-NEI yis-ra-EL ve-KAKH me-eet-TAM ma-TEH ma-TEH le-VEIT AV me-ET kol-ne-si-EI-hem le-VEIT a-vo-TAM shnei-MA-saR ma-TOT EESH et-shMO tik-TOV al-ma-TEH-hu
Exegesis
The object phrases meitam matteh meʾet kol nesiʾeihem {מֵאִתָּם מַטֶּה מֵאֵת כָּל־נְשִׂיאֵיהֶם} ‘from them a staff from all their leaders’ uses successive prepositional phrases to specify source and representative.
Root and etymology
Rootnun-tet-heh
“to extend, branch, staff”
In context — Numbers 17:2
Speak to the sons of Israel and take from them a staff from each of all their leaders , according to the house of their fathers, twelve staffs in all. You shall write each man’s name on his staff .
About this coordinate
Numbers 17:2:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 17:2, so the Hebrew word מַטֶּה (mateh) 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 Num.17.2.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.17.2.W7.S1) and character.