Bible word study

Matta (Strong’s H4302): Meaning in the Bible

Matta (מַטָּע) is the Hebrew word numbered H4302 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as something planted, i.e. the place (a garden or vineyard), or the thing (a plant, figuratively or men); by implication, the act, planting. In the King James Bible it is translated plant(-ation, -ing)..

• Original wordמַטָּע
• Transliterationmaṭṭâʻ
• Pronunciationmat-taw'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4302
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H5193;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Matta appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Matta (H4302) stands behind 6 English renderings in 6 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (3), Isaiah (2), Micah (1).

How the King James Bible renders Matta, by count

• planting2 of 6 (33 percent)
• plant1 of 6 (17 percent)
• plantation1 of 6 (17 percent)
• plantings1 of 6 (17 percent)
• plants1 of 6 (17 percent)

Three places to read Matta

• Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
• Ezekiel 17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
• Ezekiel 34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Matta in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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