This name means guard, prison
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H4307 — מַטָּרָה
mat.ta.rah · (Gate of the) Guard · Hebrew/Aramaic
15 tagged verse occurrences
1 Samuel 20:20 · לְמַטָּרָֽה׃I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.Nehemiah 3:25 · הַמַּטָּרָ֑הand Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of ParoshNehemiah 12:39 · הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.Job 16:12 · לְמַטָּרָֽה׃I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;Jeremiah 32:2 · הַמַּטָּרָ֔הAt that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.Jeremiah 32:8 · הַמַּטָּרָה֒Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.Jeremiah 32:12 · הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.Jeremiah 33:1 · הַמַּטָּרָ֖הWhile Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:Jeremiah 37:21 · הַמַּטָּרָה֒ · הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.Jeremiah 38:6 · הַמַּטָּרָ֔הSo they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.Jeremiah 38:13 · הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃ סand they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.Jeremiah 38:28 · הַמַּטָּרָ֔הAnd Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.Jeremiah 39:14 · הַמַּטָּרָ֗הhad Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.Jeremiah 39:15 · הַמַּטָּרָ֖הAnd while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:Lamentations 3:12 · כַּמַּטָּרָ֖אHe bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.