מַת

Genesis 34:30 מְתֵ֣י [am] men of

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Here: An old, rare word for 'men,' always plural. 'I' paired with a plural noun shows the father speaking for the whole clan: 'I [and mine] are men…'

Deuteronomy 2:34 מְתִ֔ם men

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 3:6 מְתִ֔ם men

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

Deuteronomy 4:27 מְתֵ֣י men of

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Here: "Men of": an old poetic word for 'men', found only in the plural (compare the name Methuselah). It joins with the next word in a fixed idiom.

Deuteronomy 26:5 בִּמְתֵ֣י <in> men of

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Here: An old word for 'men', found mostly in poetry and set phrases (compare the name Methuselah). With the preposition it means 'as men of', that is, a small band of people.

Deuteronomy 28:62 בִּמְתֵ֣י <in> men of

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Here: "With men of..." This is a rare, old word for "men" that is found only in the plural. Together with the next word it forms a fixed idiom for a group so small you could count it.

Deuteronomy 33:6 מְתָ֖יו men his

Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

1 Chronicles 16:19 מְתֵ֣י men of

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Job 11:3 מְתִ֣ים men

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

Job 11:11 מְתֵי־ men of

Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

Here: An old, poetic word for 'men', found almost only in plural phrases like 'men of …'. It turns up in Job and the Psalms (Ps 26:4 has the same phrase, 'men of falsehood'), which gives the line an elevated, formal sound.

Job 19:19 מְתֵ֣י [the] men of

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Job 22:15 מְתֵי־ men of

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Job 24:12 מְתִ֨ים׀ men

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Job 31:31 מְתֵ֣י [the] men of

if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Psalm 17:14 מִֽמְתִ֥ים מִֽמְתִ֬ים from men

from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

Here: 'From (grown) men.' This picks up the 'deliver me' of verse 13: rescue me from these people. The word מַת means 'man, male' and is not the word for 'dead', though it looks similar.

Psalm 26:4 מְתֵי־ men of

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

Here: An old, poetic word for "men" that only occurs in the plural. It is related to Ugaritic *mt* and Akkadian *mutu* ("man, husband"). Here it is joined to the next word: "men of…". It has nothing to do with the Hebrew verb for "die".

Psalm 105:12 מְתֵ֣י men of

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Here: 'Men of'. This is an old word for 'men, males' that occurs only in the plural. It is not the word for 'dead' (מֵת, met), even though the two look alike in English letters. Here it begins the fixed phrase 'men of number'.

Isaiah 3:25 מְתַ֖יִךְ men your

Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

Isaiah 5:13 מְתֵ֣י [will be] men of

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Here: An old poetic word for 'men', bound to the next word: 'men of hunger', meaning starving men. The same consonants can be read 'dead of' (so the Septuagint), which would make it 'dead from hunger'.

Isaiah 41:14 מְתֵ֖י O men of

Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Here: A rare, old word for 'men'. It appears mostly in the idiom 'men of number', meaning 'few men' (Gen 34:30; Deut 4:27), so 'men of Israel' here suggests a small handful of people. Its sound also echoes the word for 'dead' (mētîm).

Jeremiah 44:28 מְתֵ֣י men of

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

Here: A rare, old word for 'men'. It appears in the fixed phrase 'men of number', meaning so few you could count them.