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# מַתָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4977

**Mattan** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mattan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4977/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתָּן³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4977/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. priest of Baal at Jerusalem 2 K 11:18 = 2 Ch 23:17; 𝔊 Μαγθαν, Ματθαν, 𝔊L Ματθαν. father of Shephatiah, in Judah Je 38:1; 𝔊 Ναθαν, Μαθθᾱ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mattan (2); of Mattan (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 38:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.1/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע שְׁפַטְיָ֣ה בֶן־מַתָּ֗ן וּגְדַלְיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־פַּשְׁח֔וּר וְיוּכַל֙ בֶּן־שֶׁ֣לֶמְיָ֔הוּ וּפַשְׁח֖וּר בֶּן־מַלְכִּיָּ֑ה אֶ֨ת־הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֧ר יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ מְדַבֵּ֥ר אֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.heard Shephatiah the.son of.Mattan and Gedaliah the.son of.Pashhur and Jucal the.son of.Shelemiah and Pashhur the.son of.Malkijah (et) the words which Jeremiah \[was\].speaking to all the people (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke unto all the people, saying:

[2 Chronicles 23:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.23.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.23.17/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ כָל־הָעָ֤ם בֵּית־הַבַּ֙עַל֙ וַֽיִּתְּצֻ֔הוּ וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֥יו וְאֶת־צְלָמָ֖יו שִׁבֵּ֑רוּ וְאֵ֗ת מַתָּן֙ כֹּהֵ֣ן הַבַּ֔עַל הָרְג֖וּ לִפְנֵ֥י הַֽמִּזְבְּחֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and they.went all the people the.house of.(the) Baal and they pulled.it.down and (et) altars its and (et) images its they.broke and (et) Mattan the.priest of.(the) Baal they.killed before the altars

*JPS 1917:* And all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4977.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4977/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).