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# מַתַּנְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4983

**Mattaniah** — used 13 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/1502/4983/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4983/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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 (9); of Mattaniah (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.37/#tree)

מַתַּנְיָ֥ה מַתְּנַ֖י וְיַעֲשָֽׂי׃

*Word for word:* Mattaniah Mattenai and Jaasai

*JPS 1917:* Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasai;

[1 Chronicles 9:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.15/#tree)

וּבַקְבַּקַּ֥ר חֶ֖רֶשׁ וְגָלָ֑ל וּמַתַּנְיָה֙ בֶּן־מִיכָ֔א בֶּן־זִכְרִ֖י בֶּן־אָסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* and Bakbakkar Heresh and Galal and Mattaniah the.son of.Mica the.son of.Zikri the.son of.Asaph

*JPS 1917:* and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4983.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4983/): 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).