מָתַי43 interrogative adverb when? (Arabic ; Assyrian mati: in Late Hebrew and Aramaic with the interrogative אַי, אֵימָתִי, אֵימָת, ), in OT only of future time:
\ \ a. alone, [Gen 30:30] מָתַי אעשׂה גם אנכי לביתי when shall I also do, etc.? [Amos 8:5]; [Ps 41:6]; [Ps 42:3]; [Ps 94:8]; [Ps 101:2]; [Ps 119:82]; [Ps 119:84]; [Prov 6:9] b [Prov 23:35]; [Job 7:4] מָתַי אָקוּם, [Neh 2:6].
\ \ b. לְמָתַי against when? [Exod 8:5] לְמָתַי לְךָ אַעְתִּיר.
\ \ c. עַדמָֿתַי until when? how long? followed by imperfect [Exod 10:7] עד מתי יהיה זה לנו למוקשׁ, [1Sam 1:14]; [Jer 4:14]; [Jer 4:21]; [Ps 74:10]; [Ps 82:2]; [Ps 94:3]; [Prov 1:22] +, followed by participle1 Sam [Prov 16:1]; [1Kgs 18:21] עַדמָֿתַי אַתֶּם פֹּסְחִים עַלשְֿׁתֵּי הַסְּעִפִּים, followed by perfect [Exod 10:3]; [Ps 80:5] עַד מָתַי לֹא [2Sam 2:26]; [Hos 8:5]; [Zech 1:12] alone, [Isa 6:11] וָאֹמַר עַדמָֿתַי אֲדֹנָי, [Hab 2:6] הוֺי הַמַּרְבֶּה לֹאלֿוֺ עַדמָֿתַי; with an aposiop., [Ps 6:4] עַדמָֿתָ֑י ׳וְאַתָּה י, [Ps 90:13].
\ \ d. אַחֲרֵי מָתַי עוֺד, after how long yet? [Jer 13:27].
מְתִים see מַת. מַתְכֹּ֫נֶת see תכן. above,
מַתְּלָאָה see תְּלָאָה. מְתַלְּעוֺת see תלע.
מְתֹם see תמם; [Judg 20:48] see מַת.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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