Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H4676 - maṣṣēḇâ

Choose a new font size and typeface
מַצֵּבָה
Transliteration
maṣṣēḇâ
Pronunciation
mats-tsay-baw'
Listen
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
(causatively) participle of נָצַב (H5324)
Dictionary Aids

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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22 - and[fn] this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’ ”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:45

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14 - Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:24 - Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - “ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[fn] and burn their idols in the fire.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:22 - and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the LORD your God hates.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:26 - They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.[fn])

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:19 - In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - There in the temple of the sun[fn] in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’ ”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:11 - The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:4 - For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:1 - Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered, he adorned his sacred stones.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:2 - Their heart is deceitful, and now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will demolish their altars and destroy their sacred stones.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:13 - I will destroy your idols and your sacred stones from among you; you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.