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# מַתָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4976

**gift** — used 5 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

gift [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4976/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתָּן²: n.m. coll. gift(s) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4976/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 18:16 coll. gift(s);—abs. מ׳ Gn 34:12 + 2 times; cstr. id. Pr 18:16 (v. Baer ad loc. Ges§ 92 g Köii 1, 98); sf. מַתָּנָם Nu 18:11;—marriage-gifts Gn 34:12 (J; + מֹהַר); offerings Nu 18:11 (P; תְּרוּמַת מ׳); elsewhere gen., gifts, presents, Pr 18:16; 21:14 (‖ שֹׁחַד); אִישׁ מַתָּן 19:6 = a giver of gifts.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a gift (2); \[the\] gift (1); of gift (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.16/#tree)

מַתָּ֣ן אָ֭דָם יַרְחִ֣יב ל֑וֹ וְלִפְנֵ֖י גְדֹלִ֣ים יַנְחֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].gift of.a.person it.makes.space for him and before great.\[people\] it leads.him

*JPS 1917:* A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

[Proverbs 19:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.6/#tree)

רַ֭בִּים יְחַלּ֣וּ פְנֵֽי־נָדִ֑יב וְכָל־הָ֝רֵ֗עַ לְאִ֣ישׁ מַתָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* many.\[people\] they.entreat \[the\].face of.a.noble.\[person\] and everyone \[is\].the friend of a.person of.gift

*JPS 1917:* Many will entreat the favour of the liberal man; and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4976.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4976/): 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).