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Lexicon :: Strong's H4676 - maṣṣēḇâ

Aa
מַצֵּבָה
Transliteration
maṣṣēḇâ
Pronunciation
mats-tsay-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
(causatively) participle of נָצַב (H5324)
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TWOT Reference: 1398g

Strong’s Definitions

מַצֵּבָה matstsêbâh, mats-tsay-baw'; feminine (causatively) participle of H5324; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol:—garrison, (standing) image, pillar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H4676 in the following manner: image (19x), pillar (12x), garrisons (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H4676 in the following manner: image (19x), pillar (12x), garrisons (1x).

  1. pillar, mastaba, stump

    1. pillar

      1. as monument, personal memorial

      2. with an altar

    2. stock, stump (of tree)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַצֵּבָה matstsêbâh, mats-tsay-baw'; feminine (causatively) participle of H5324; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol:—garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
STRONGS H4676: Abbreviations
† מַצֵּבָה, [H4678 מַצֶּ֫בֶת] noun feminine pillar, maṣṣēbā, stump; — absolute מַצֵּבָה Hosea 3:4 +,מַצֶּ֫בֶת [H4678 2 Samuel 18:18a] (read הַמּ׳ Greek Version of the LXX Dr Bu Kit), [H4678 2 Samuel 18:18b Isaiah 6:13], construct מַצְּבַת 2 Kings 3:2; 2 Kings 10:27, מַצֶּ֫בֶת [H4678 Genesis 35:14, Genesis 35:20; suffix מַצַּבְתָּהּ H4678 Isaiah 6:13]; plural absolute מַצֵּבוֺת 1 Kings 14:28, construct מַצְּבוֺת 2 Kings 10:26, etc.; —
1.
a. pillar, as monument, personal memorial 2 Samuel 18:18 (twice in verse).
b. a stone, set up (שׂים, הציב), and anointed as memorial of divine appearance Genesis 28:18, 22; Genesis 31:13 (all E), Genesis 35:14 (J); so also Genesis 33:20 (E), where insert מ׳, or read מ׳ for MT מִזְבֵּחַ (We Di NowArchaeology ii.18), set up (שׂים), הרים, חציב in token of an agreement Genesis 31:45, 51, 52 (twice in verse) (all E); over grave Genesis 35:20 (twice in verse).
c. especially of sacred stones or pillars in connection with altar, erected (בנה) by Moses Exodus 24:4 (E; 12 pillars), Hosea 3:4; Hosea 10:1, 2; Isaiah 19:19; conjecture also 2 Kings 12:10 for MT מִזְבֵּחַ StaZAW v (1885), 296 NowArchaeology l.c., but dubious, see Benzon the passage; (usually + אֲשֵׁרִים etc.): of Canaanites Exodus 23:24 (E), Exodus 34:13 (J), Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3 compare הַבַּלְַ מ׳ 2 Kings 3:2; 2 Kings 10:26, 27; Tyre, עֻזֵּךְ מ׳, Ezekiel 26:11, of obelisks of Heliopolis in Egypt; condemned for Israel by Deuteronomic code, and Deuteronomist redaction of Kings: Deuteronomy 16:22; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 23:14; 2 Chronicles 14:2; 2 Chronicles 31:1; compare Micah 5:12; Leviticus 26:1 (H). — On maṣṣēbā see further NowArchaeology ii.18 f. BenzArchaeology 380 f. DrDeuteronomy 16:21f. WeSkizzen iii. 99, 165 RSSem. i. 184 ff. 437. f; 2d ed. 204 ff. 456 f.; K. 50. **On this see also LagrangeÉtudes Bibl. 197 ff. and review by BauZMG lvii (1903), 830; also GFMEB MASSEBAH StaBib. Theol. i. § 55 OCWhitehouseHast. DB PILLAR. —
[H5324 Judges 9:6] see [נָצַב] Hoph.]
2. stock, stump of tree Isaiah 6:13a (in simile), so Isaiah 6:13b (figurative; but probably strike out as gloss).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

28:18; 28:22; 31:13; 31:45; 31:51; 31:52; 33:20; 35:14; 35:20

Exodus

23:24; 24:4; 34:13

Leviticus

26:1

Deuteronomy

7:5; 12:3; 16:21; 16:22

2 Samuel

18:18

1 Kings

14:28

2 Kings

3:2; 3:2; 10:26; 10:26; 10:27; 10:27; 12:10; 14:23; 17:10; 18:4; 23:14

2 Chronicles

14:2; 31:1

Isaiah

6:13; 6:13; 19:19

Ezekiel

26:11

Hosea

3:4; 3:4; 10:1; 10:2

Micah

5:12

H4676

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4676 matches the Hebrew מַצֵּבָה (maṣṣēḇâ),
which occurs 32 times in 31 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22 - And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14 - And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:22 - You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:26 - And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:19 - In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the edge of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:11 - Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:4 - For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:1 - Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:2 - Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:13 - And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.
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