Strong's Hebrew · H4962
H4962 math
מַת
math
man
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math appears 22 times in Scripture, including Genesis 34:30 and Deuteronomy 2:34. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
In the King James Version
few, × friends, men, persons, × small.
Derivation
from the same as H4970 (מָתַי);
Appears 22 times in Scripture
“from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.”
“We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.”
“From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.”
“At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.”
“When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,”
“Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.””
“Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.””
“and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.”
“Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.”
“You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
