Strong's Definition
from the same as 4970; properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
KJV Usage: + few, X friends, men, persons, X small
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מַת (mat) — man. 1) male, man 1a) males, men 1b) few men (in prose) 1b1) less emphasis on sex 1c) men (poetic) 1c1) less emphasis on sex
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
People
people = human beings, regardless of sex and age
GEN 34:30 · DEU 4:27 · DEU 26:5 · DEU 28:62 · DEU 33:6 · JDG 20:48 · 1CH 16:19 · JOB 11:3 · JOB 11:11 · JOB 22:15 · JOB 24:12 · JOB 31:31 · PSA 17:14 · PSA 17:14 · PSA 26:4 · PSA 105:12 · ISA 3:25 · ISA 41:14 · JER 44:28
Friends | ≈ אהב
Collocation: מְתֵי סֹוד
intimate friends literally: people of friendship; hence: = people with whom one has an affectionate relationship
1 JDG 20:48 MT מְתֹם
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מַת] n.m. male, man males, men
usu. less emphasis on sex
elsewhere only poet.
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