H4294J–מַטֶּה–mat.teh

For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp [ergänzt: threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

בַמַּטֶּ֛ה (מַּטֶּ֛ה) ma.Teh “staff”

And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

מַטּ֣וֹת ma.Tot “branches of”

But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

מַטֵּ֥ה ma.Teh “[the] branch of”

And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

מִמַּטֵּ֤ה (מַּטֵּ֤ה) ma.Teh “[the] branch of”מַטֵּה־ ma.teh- “a branch of”