מָתַי
mātay
when
Strong's H4970InterrogativeHebrewTWOT 1266

מָתַי (mātay) is a Hebrew interrogative meaning when. It appears 43 times in 17 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4970).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1266)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1266)when; extent; long
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מָתַי interrogative, adverb: when

Strong's H4970 מָתַי: properly, extent (of time); but used only adverbially (especially with other particle prefixes), when (either relative or interrogative)
KJV:long, when.

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.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 30:30Numbers 14:271 Samuel 1:14

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