The word matrix appears five times in the King James Version, always in the phrase “all that openeth the matrix”.

Matrix is a translation of the Hebrew word רֶחֶם (rechem), meaning womb. And openeth is פֶּטֶר (peter), meaning that which first opens. So the phrase means that which first opens the womb. In other words, the mother’s firstborn.

The English word matrix comes from the same word in Latin, meaning womb, which in turn comes from mater meaning mother. At the time of translation, matrix meant womb in English, but it has since taken on different meanings in biology, mathematics, computing and electronics. (It is because of these multiple meanings as well as its use in the Bible that the Wachowskis chose it for their 1999 movie The Matrix ‒ the Matrix is both a computer simulation for the humans’ minds and a machine womb for their bodies.)

Why the translators used the Latin-derived word in these particular instances, I don’t know. They also translated the same phrase as “all that openeth the womb” in Exodus, Ezekiel and Luke.

In the earlier Tyndale translation (1534), the word matrix appears only once, but he translated the New Testament only:

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