Matstsâb — H4673

Definition

masculine noun

a fixed spot; figuratively, an office, a military post

1. station, garrison, standing-place
1. standing-place (of feet)
2. station, office, position
3. garrison, post, outpost

Usually translated as

garrison, station, place where...stood

Origin

from H5324

• Derived from Nâtsab (H5324)

Greek equivalents

• oikonomía (G3622)
• hypóstasis (G5287)

Occurrences

Matstsâb occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (6), 2 Samuel (1), Isaiah (1)

• Joshua 4:3 — And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place (מִמַּצַּב֙) where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
• Joshua 4:9 — And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood (מַצַּב֙): and they are there unto this day.
• 1 Samuel 13:23 — And the garrison (מַצַּ֣ב) of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
• 1 Samuel 14:1 — Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison (מַצַּ֣ב), that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
• 1 Samuel 14:4 — And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison (מַצַּ֣ב), there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
• 1 Samuel 14:6 — And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison (מַצַּב֙) of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
• 1 Samuel 14:11 — And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison (מַצַּ֖ב) of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
• 1 Samuel 14:15 — And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison (הַמַּצָּב֙), and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
• 2 Samuel 23:14 — And David was then in an hold, and the garrison (וּמַצַּ֣ב) of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
• Isaiah 22:19 — And I will drive thee from thy station (מִמַּצָּבֶ֑ךָ), and from thy state shall he pull thee down.