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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And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Read in context →Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Read in context →8 occurrences in 7 verses.
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dâbâr · daw-baw'
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
Open full H1697 profile →lógos · log'-os
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
Open full G3056 profile →millâh · mil-law'
a word, command, discourse, or subject
Strong's KJV usage: commandment, matter, thing. word.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:10Strong's last: Daniel 7:28
Open full H4406 profile →prâgma · prag'-mah
a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object (material)
Strong's KJV usage: :--business, matter, thing, work.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 6:1Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 4:6
Open full G4229 profile →mᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'
a little or few (often adverbial or comparative)
Strong's KJV usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, × very.
Strong's first: Genesis 30:15Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:20
Open full H4592 profile →pithgâm · pith-gawm'
a word, answer, letter or decree
Strong's KJV usage: answer, letter, matter, word.
Strong's first: Daniel 3:16Strong's last: Daniel 4:17
Open full H6600 profile →diaphérō · dee-af-er'-o
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
Open full G1308 profile →katá · kat-ah'
(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
Open full G2596 profile →tìs · tis
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
Open full G5100 profile →hýlē · hoo-lay'
a forest, i.e. (by implication) fuel
Strong's KJV usage: :--matter.
Strong's first: James 3:5Strong's last: James 3:5
Open full G5208 profile →dên · dane
this
Strong's KJV usage: (afore-) time, after this manner, here (-after), one...another, such, there(-fore), these, this (matter), thus, where(-fore), which.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:17Strong's last: Ezra 5:17
Open full H1836 profile →chêphets · khay'-fets
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
Open full H2656 profile →ṭaʻam · tah'-am
properly, a taste, i.e. a judicial sentence
Strong's KJV usage: account, × to be commanded, commandment, matter.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:5Strong's last: Ezra 5:5
Open full H2941 profile →kâkâh · kaw'-kaw
just so, referring to the previous or following context
Strong's KJV usage: after that (this) manner, this matter, (even) so, in such a case, thus.
Strong's first: Esther 9:26Strong's last: Esther 9:26
Open full H3602 profile →millâh · mil-law'
a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
Strong's KJV usage: answer, by-word, matter, any thing (what) to say, to speak(-ing), speak, talking, word.
Strong's first: Job 32:18Strong's last: Job 32:18
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It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
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:
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.
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.
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
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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.
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