מטטרון

Hebrew

Etymology

The etymology is obscure. Possibly from Hebrew מטרא‎ (mattara) 'keeper of the watch.' The Greek/Latin form Metatron superficially appears to be a Greek compound meta-tron, but that would not seem to make much sense semantically, meaning something like "among-tool." It has also been proposed that the word actually is Greek in origin, coming from μετά + θρόνος, with the "th" being transformed into a "t" as the word was repeatedly taken up by one language from another.[1]

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /me.tatˈʁon/

Proper noun

מֶטָטְרוֹן • (metatrón) m

Metatron (an archangel associated with Talmud.)

References

Sefer Hekhalot, "Evolution of the roles and titles," in ch. 3, p. 93, of The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2005).

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[1] Sefer Hekhalot, "Evolution of the roles and titles," in ch. 3, p. 93, of The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2005).