Lexicon :: Strong's H4295 - maṭṭâ

“They are to be paired at the bottom, and joined together[fn] at the top in a single ring. So it should be for both of them; they will serve as the two corners.

“Set it below, under the altar’s ledge,[fn] so that the mesh comes halfway up[fn] the altar.

“Make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the ephod’s two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam,[fn] and above the ephod’s woven waistband.

They were paired at the bottom and joined together[fn] at the[fn] top in a single ring. This is what he did with both of them for the two corners.

He constructed for the altar a grate of bronze mesh under its ledge,[fn] halfway up from the bottom.

They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the ephod’s two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam,[fn] above the ephod’s woven waistband.

“The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the LORD your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.

“The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

“The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the LORD had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

This same Hezekiah blocked the upper outlet of the water from the Gihon Spring and channeled it smoothly downward and westward to the city of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.

After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt ​— ​though you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have allowed us to survive[fn] ​— ​

For the prudent the path of life leads upward,

so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Who knows if the spirits of the children of Adam go upward and the spirits of animals go downward to the earth?

“The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

“This is what the LORD says:

Only if the heavens above can be measured

and the foundations of the earth below explored,

will I reject all of Israel’s descendants

because of all they have done —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

From what seemed to be his waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire enclosing it all around. From what seemed to be his waist down, I also saw what looked like fire. There was a brilliant light all around him.

I looked, and there was someone who looked like a man.[fn] From what seemed to be his waist down was fire, and from his waist up was something that looked bright, like the gleam of amber.