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מַטְאֲטֵא

mat.a.te

broom

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Strong’s H4292Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a broom of1

In the text

Isaiah 14:23בְּמַטְאֲטֵא
“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַטְאֲטֵא n.[m.] broom, besom, only Is 14:23, v. foregoing [i.ab.aa].

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.