מַת (mat) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning male. It appears
22 times
in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H4962).
Also rendered
man
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1263)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1263)male, man; men; adult; few, persons
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
מַתnoun, masculine: male, man
1.males, men
2.usually less emphasis on sex
3.elsewhere only poetic
Strong's H4962מַת: properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural) KJV:few, × friends, men, persons, × small.
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.