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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Matter

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

80exact KJV occurrences 65Old Testament 15New Testament 27books containing the word 15mapped Strong's IDs 72occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 24:9

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

James 3:5

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where matter appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH1697
דָּבָר

dâbâr · daw-baw'

48 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.

Strong's first: Genesis 24:9Strong's last: Daniel 9:23

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GreekG3056
λόγος

lógos · log'-os

4 times translated as this KJV form339 total Strong's occurrences

something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ)

Strong's KJV usage: :--account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.

Strong's first: Mark 1:45Strong's last: Acts 19:38

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GreekG1308
διαφέρω

diaphérō · dee-af-er'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences

to bear through, i.e. (literally) transport; usually to bear apart, i.e. (objectively) to toss about (figuratively, report); subjectively, to "differ", or (by implication) surpass

Strong's KJV usage: :--be better, carry, differ from, drive up and down, be (more) excellent, make matter, publish, be of more value.

Strong's first: Galatians 2:6Strong's last: Galatians 2:6

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GreekG2596
κατά

katá · kat-ah'

1 times translated as this KJV form427 total Strong's occurrences

(prepositionally) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined)

Strong's KJV usage: :--about, according as (to), after, against, (when they were) X alone, among, and, X apart, (even, like) as (concerning, pertaining to touching), X aside, at, before, beyond, by, to the charge of, (charita-)bly, concerning, + covered, (dai-)ly, down, every, (+ far more) exceeding, X more excellent, for, from … to, godly, in(-asmuch, divers, every, -to, respect of), … by, after the manner of, + by any means, beyond (out of) measure, X mightily, more, X natural, of (up-)on (X part), out (of every), over against, (+ your) X own, + particularly, so, through(-oughout, -oughout every), thus, (un-)to(-gether, -ward), X uttermost, where(-by), with.

Strong's first: Acts 24:22Strong's last: Acts 24:22

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GreekG5100
τὶς

tìs · tis

1 times translated as this KJV form506 total Strong's occurrences

some or any person or object

Strong's KJV usage: :--a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).

Strong's first: Acts 18:14Strong's last: Acts 18:14

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GreekG5208
ὕλη

hýlē · hoo-lay'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a forest, i.e. (by implication) fuel

Strong's KJV usage: :--matter.

Strong's first: James 3:5Strong's last: James 3:5

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HebrewH2656
חֵפֶץ

chêphets · khay'-fets

1 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)

Strong's KJV usage: acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.

Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 5:8Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 5:8

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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7 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Clear
Acts 8:21
G3056

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

Acts 11:4
no direct Strong's tag

But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

Acts 15:6
G3056

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

Acts 17:32
no direct Strong's tag

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

Acts 18:14
G5100

And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

Acts 19:38
G3056

Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

Acts 24:22
G2596

And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

matter

MAT'TER, noun [Latin materia; Heb. to measure; Latin metior.]

1. Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown our of discharged in a tumor, boil or abscess; pus; purulent substance collected in an abscess, the effect of suppuration more or less perfect; as digested matter; sanious matter

2. Body; substance extended; that which is visible or tangible; as earth, wood, stone, air, vapor, water.

3. In a more general and philosophic sense, the substance of which all bodies are composed; the substratum of sensible qualities, though the parts composing the substratum may not be visible or tangible.

Matter is usually divided by philosophical writers into four kinds or classes; solid, liquid; aeriform, and imponderable. Solid substances are those whose parts firmly cohere and resist impression, as wood or stone; liquids have free motion among their parts, and easily yield to impression, as water and wine. Aeriform substances are elastic fluids, called vapors and gases, as air and oxygen gas. The imponderable substances are destitute of weight, as light, caloric, electricity, and magnetism.

4. Subject; thing treated; that about which we write or speak; that which employs thought or excites emotion; as, this is matter of praise, of gratitude, or of astonishment.

Son of God, Savior of men, thy name

Shall be the copious matter of my song.

5. The very thing supposed or intended.

He grants the deluge to have come so very near the matter that few escaped.

6. Affair; business; event; thing; course of things. Matters have succeeded well thus far; observe how matters stand; thus the matter rests at present; thus the matter ended.

To help the matter the alchimists call in many vanities from astrology.

Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice.

7. Cause of any event, as of any disturbance, of a disease, or of a difficulty. When a moving machine stops suddenly, we ask, what is the matter? When a person is ill, we ask, what is the matter? When a tumult or quarrel takes place, we ask, what is the matter?

8. Subject of complaint; suit; demand.

If the matter should be tried by duel between two champions--

Every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small matter they shall judge-- Exodus 18:16.

9. Import; consequence; importance; moment.

A prophet some, and some a poet cry,

No matter which, so neither of them lie.

10. Space of time; a portion of distance.

I have thoughts to tarry a small matter

Away he goes, a matter of seven miles--

[In these last senses, the use of matter is now vulgar.]

Upon the matter considering the whole; taking all things into view. This phrase is now obsolete; but in lieu of it, we sometimes use, upon the whole matter

Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter equal in foot.

Matter of record, that which is recorded, or which may be proved by record.

MAT'TER, verb intransitive To be of importance; to import; used with it, this, that, or what. This matters not; that matters not; chiefly used in negative phrases; as, what matters it?

It matters not how they are called, so we know who they are.

1. To maturate; to form pus; to collect, as matter in an abscess.

Each slight sore mattereth. [Little used.]

[We now use maturate.]

MAT'TER, verb transitive To regard. [Not used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

SOURCE & METHOD

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