# H4970 מָתַי

מָתַי (mâthay), Strong’s H4970: properly, extent (of time); but used only adverbially (especially with other particle prefixes), when (either relative or interrogative) KJV: long, when.. Occurs 43…

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*mâthay* — properly, extent (of time); but used only adverbially (especially with other particle prefixes), when (either relative or interrogative)

KJV: long, when.

Occurs 43 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָתַי 43 interrog.adv. when?

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=30) — For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I…
- [Exodus 8:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=5) — Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and…
- [Exodus 10:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=3) — Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long…
- [Exodus 10:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=7) — Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD…
- [Numbers 14:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=27) — “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the…
- [1 Samuel 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=14) — Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
- [1 Samuel 16:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/16?v=1) — The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill…
- [2 Samuel 2:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/2?v=26) — Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the…
- [1 Kings 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=21) — Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If the LORD is God…
- [Isaiah 6:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/6?v=11) — Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land…