# H4962 מַת

מַת (math), Strong’s H4962: properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural) KJV: [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.. Occurs 22 times.

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*math* — properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)

KJV: [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.

Derived from [מָתַי mâthay](https://besorah.bible/word/H4970) (extent)

Occurs 22 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מַת] n.m. male, man
- 1 males, men
- 2 usu. less emphasis on sex
- 3 elsewhere only poet.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 34:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=30) — Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…
- [Deuteronomy 2:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=34) — We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We…
- [Deuteronomy 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=6) — We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women…
- [Deuteronomy 4:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=27) — The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will…
- [Deuteronomy 26:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=5) — You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt…
- [Deuteronomy 28:62](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=62) — You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen…
- [Deuteronomy 33:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/33?v=6) — “Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.”
- [Isaiah 3:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=25) — Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
- [Isaiah 5:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=13) — Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are…
- [Isaiah 41:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/41?v=14) — Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One…