4307 - mattara or mattarah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: מַטָּרָה
Transliteration: mattara or mattarah
Definition (short): guardhouse
Definition (full): a guard, ward, prison, target, mark

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from natar
Definition: a guard, ward, prison, target, mark
NASB Translation: guard (6), guardhouse (7), target (3).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or mattarah {mat-taw-raw'}; from natar; a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched) -- mark, prison.

see HEBREW natar

KJV: And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
NASB: "I will shoot three arrows to the side, as though I shot at a target.
KJV: Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
NASB: Palal the son of Uzai made repairs in front of the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
KJV: And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
NASB: and above the Gate of Ephraim, by the Old Gate, by the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
KJV: I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
NASB: "I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
KJV: For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
NASB: Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,