מַטֶּה (maṭṭeh) is a Hebrew noun meaning branch. It appears 252 times in 15 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4294).
מַטֶּה noun, masculine
Strong's H4294 מַטֶּה: a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread)
KJV:rod, staff, tribe.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1352: נָטָה nāṭâ — stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend; stretch, offer, pitch, turn; be stretched out; afternoon, apply, bow, bowing, carry aside, decline, deliver, go down, be gone, intend, lay, let down, outstretched, overthrown…
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