rain; prison
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
1Sa_10:21.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ma'tri (rain of Jehovah). A family of the tribe of Benjamin, to which Saul, the King of Israel, belonged. 1Sa_10:21.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mā?trı̄ (מטרי, maṭrı̄, ?rainy?): A family of the tribe of Benjamin to which King Saul belonged (1Sa_10:21 the King James Version).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Matri
(Heb. Matri', מִטְרַי[but with the def. art.], prob. expectant; Sept. Ματταρί, Vulg. Metri), a Benjamite, the head of the ancestry of Kish, the father of Saul (1Sa_10:21). B.C. prob. cir. 1612.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.