Gematria of Staff
9 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “staff” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,063 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 9
- Occurrences
- 1,063
- Distinct values
- 9
The 9 Hebrew words rendered “staff”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:11בראשית א:יאעֵץ
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)
First appearance ·Genesis 38:18בראשית לח:יחוּמַטְּךָ
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides
First appearance ·Genesis 2:18בראשית ב:יחלְבַדּוֹ
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
First appearance ·Genesis 49:10בראשית מט:ישֵׁבֶט
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
First appearance ·Genesis 49:23בראשית מט:כגחִצִּֽים
a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
First appearance ·Genesis 30:37בראשית ל:לזמַקַּל
support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick
First appearance ·Exodus 21:19שמות כא:יטמִשְׁעַנְתּוֹ
a circuit (i.e. district); also a spindle (as whirled); hence, a crutch
First appearance ·2 Samuel 3:29שמואל ב ג:כטבַּפֶּלֶךְ
a wavering, i.e. fall; by implication, a pole (as shaking); hence, a yoke (as essentially a bent pole)
First appearance ·Numbers 4:10במדבר ד:יהַמּֽוֹט
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Quick answers
What is the gematria of staff?
The Tanakh renders “staff” with 9 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: עץ = 160, מטה = 54, בד = 6, and 6 more.
How do you say staff in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 9 Hebrew words for “staff”; the most frequent are עץ (ʻêts), 329 times; מטה (maṭṭeh), 252 times; בד (bad), 202 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.