מֻטֶּה
perversion
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4297 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun מטה centers on the idea of “perversion.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Ezekiel (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Ezekiel 9:9. It clusters with נטה, מטה and מטה under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4297 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Perverseness 1×
- American Standard Version: Wresting 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Perversity 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Perversions 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4297 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4297 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4297 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4297 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a perversion, that which is perverted or warped, perverted
Word origin
n.[m.] that which is perverted, perverted justice (see √ Hiph. 3 g);—only וְהָעִיר מָֽלְאָה מ׳ Ez 9:9 (as above Ke Sm Da Berthol Toy RV > perverseness AV) > Co חָמָס (as 7:23).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נטה (nâṭâh) (H5186) — to stretch out.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מְטָה
- , v. מְטֵי
מִטָּה
- couch, bed, frame, bier. Ned. VII, 5, v. דַּרְגֵּשׁ. Ib. 56ᵃ, a. fr. הכופה את מִטָּתוֹ, v. כָּפָה. Ib. 56ᵇ מ׳ המיוחדת לכלים a bed designated for the exhibit of garments (not slept upon); Snh. 20ᵃ. Ber. III, 1 נושאי המ׳ those carrying the bier; a. fr.—מ׳של גילה, מ׳ גלילתא, v. גִּלָּה, גְּלִילְתָּא.—Sabb. 47ᵃ, v. טרְסִי I.—Pl. מִטּוֹת, מִי׳. Ned. 56ᵃ; a. fr.—Trnsf. family, offspring. Lev. R. s. 36 שהיתה מִטָּתוֹ שלימה his bed was perfect, his children were all righteous; Sifra B’ḥuck., Par. 2, ch. VIII. Ber. 60ᵇ. Pes. 56ᵃ שמא … יש במִיטָּתִי פסול perhaps there is a blemish in my family; a. e.
מַטֶּה
- 1. staff. Ab. V, 6 המ׳ the staff of Moses. Ex. R. s. 3 המ׳ שתייסרנו בו the staff with which thou shalt chastise him. Ib. ‘the signs which I placed in thy hands’ (Ex. IV, 21) זה המ׳ that means the staff; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 4:21
- 2. tribe. Tosef. R. Hash. III (II), 3 שלש על כל מ׳ ומ׳ three notes for each tribe; Y. Succ. V, 55ᶜ
מֹטָה
- , v. מוֹטָה
מַטָּה
- adv. (b. h.; downward, (used as a noun) below. Tanḥ. B’shall. 23 מחמת אש של מעלה … של מ׳ through the fire from above were his wheels below ignited; (Yalk. Ex. 235 שלמעלן … שלמַטָּן, v. infra). Ḥag. II, 1 (11ᵇ) מה למעלה ומה למ׳ what is above (in heaven) and what is below (in the nether world, Rashi: above the Ḥayoth, below the Ḥayoth, v. חַיָּה). Tosef. Ber. V, 5 שלישי לו למ׳ הימנו he who is the third in rank reclines below him (v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Triclinium); a. fr.—Euphem. for מעלה in order to avoid a blasphemous expression: B. Kam. 79ᵇ כביכול עשה עין של מ׳ … ואוזן של מ׳ וכ׳ he treated, if one may say so, the divine eye as if did not see, and the divine ear as if did not hear.—Frequ. מַטָּן. Y. Yoma VII, 44ᵇ כשירות של מעלן … של מ׳ as the service in heaven, so is that on earth; Lev. R. s. 21, end (not שורות). Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ ב"ד שלמ׳ the court on earth; a. fr.
מְטֵי
- (= h. מָצָא)
- 1. to stretch, reach; to arrive at; to obtain; to happen to. Targ. Gen. XI, 4 (Y. II מַמְטֵי). Targ. O. ib. X, 19 (h. text באכה). Targ. II Kings XIX, 26. Targ. Koh. VIII, 14; a. fr.—Targ. Esth. V, 2 [read:] ומְטָת לִידָהּ and it (the scepter) reached her hand (v. Meg. 15ᵇ).—Snh. 109ᵃ כי מ׳ להאי וכ׳ when he arrived at a certain inn. Keth. 63ᵃ כי מַטְיָא לגביה when she came near him. Ib. מ׳ מעלי וכ׳ the eve of the Day of Atonement came. R. Hash. 12ᵇ א"ר אסי א"ר יוחנן ומָטוּ בה משמיה וכ׳ said R. A. in the name of R. Joh., and they arrived in the chain of tradition up to ‘in the name of R. J. the Galilean’ (an editorial gloss). Y. Ber. III, 6ᵃ top, a. fr. מַטְתֵיה אונס an accident (mourning) befell him. Y. Peah VIII, end, 21ᵇ ומטתיה כן and so it happened to him (as he had wished). Ib. ולא מ׳ מיכול וכ׳ and he had no chance to dine with him. Y. Snh. VI, 23ᶜ; Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ bot. בעי מַמְטֵי מיא ולא מ׳ wanted to fetch water but could not. Ib. 78ᵃ top כל דמָטֵי וכ׳, v. זוֹגָא. [Ib. כל מטי יעבוד וכ׳, read: כל חד מינן וכ׳ let each of us do &c.] Y. Keth. IV, 28ᵇ top מְטִינְתָּה להאי דאמר וכ׳ thou hast found that which R … said; ib. מְטִינְתָּא.—Ḥag. 5ᵃ כי מ׳ להאי קרא when he came to this verse. Snh. 100ᵃ כי מָטוּ מגלת וכ׳ when (in preparing wrappers for the scrolls) they came to the roll of Esther; a. v. fr.—[Ḥull. 132ᵃ top מָטוּנָךְ we or they (the words of the text) have reached thee, agree with thee, Rashi; v. טוּנָא I.]
- 2. (sub. בישולא or זימנא) to be ripe, ready. Ḥag. l. c. שביק הנך דמָטוּ וֹכ׳ he left those (figs) which were ripe and plucked those which were not. Ḥull. 112ᵃ תיתאה מטא the lower portion was ready (roasted).
- to cause to reach; to fetch, bring, offer. [Targ. Y. II, Gen. XI, 4 מַמְטֵי part. pass., v. supra.] Targ. Y. ib. XXVII, 25. Targ. O. Lev. IX, 12; a. fr.—B. Kam. 117ᵃ דרי ואַמְטֵי בהדן take it up and hand it over (to the King’s treasury) in our presence; דרא וא׳ וכ׳ he did take it up &c. Ib. 119ᵇ, a. e. אַמְטוּיֵי ואתויי חד (not אמטוי) is leading the needle forth and bringing it home one stitch (= h. הוליך והביא)? B. Bath. 21ᵃ לא מַמְטִינָן וכ׳, v. יָנוּקָא I. Keth. 103ᵇ sq. אַמְטְיוּהִי לצ׳ וכ׳ they took him to Sepphoris which lies high. Gen. R. s. 14, beg.; ib. 20 מן דידכון אנא מַמְטֵי לכון from your own language I will offer (proof) to you; a. fr.
- to repair to. Targ. O. Num. XXIII, 15; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
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