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# מַתַּנְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Mattaniah** — 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

Mattaniah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. GrayProp. N. 294, No. 82);—𝔊 Μαθθας, Μανθανιας, Ματθανιας, etc.;— מַתַּנְיָה, last king of Judah, name changed to Zedekiah 2 K 24:17. מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּ, Levite name: son of Heman 1 Ch 25:4. Asaphite 1 Ch 25:16. id., 2 Ch 29:13 (Hezekiah’s time). מַתַּנְיָה, Levite name: Asaphite 1 Ch 9:15; Ne 11:17, 22; 12:8, 35, perhaps = 2 b, c (but much confusion and uncertainty; e.g. מ׳ is of Hezekiah’s time 2 Ch 29:13, and 4th generation before Neh., Ne 11:22; 12:35; while contemp. of Zerub. 12:8 and of Neh. 11:17). other Levites: (1) 2 Ch 20:14, (2) Ne 12:25, (3) 13:13. מַתַּנְיָה, name of several who took strange wives: Ezr 10:26. v 27. v 30. v 37.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mattaniah (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 25:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.25.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.25.16/#tree)

הַתְּשִׁיעִ֣י מַתַּנְיָ֔הוּ בָּנָ֥יו וְאֶחָ֖יו שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* the ninth Mattaniah sons his and relatives his two.plus ten

*JPS 1917:* The ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

[2 Chronicles 29:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.13/#tree)

וּמִן־בְּנֵי֙ אֱלִ֣יצָפָ֔ן שִׁמְרִ֖י וִיעִיאֵ֑ל וּמִן־בְּנֵ֣י אָסָ֔ף זְכַרְיָ֖הוּ וּמַתַּנְיָֽהוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the.descendants of.Elizaphan Shimri and Jeiel and of the.descendants of.Asaph Zechariah and Mattaniah

*JPS 1917:* and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): 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).