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# מַתְּנַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4982

**Mattenai** — 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

Mattenai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4982/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתְּנַי²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4982/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (abbrev. from foregoing);—𝔊 Μαθ(θ)ανια, Μαθθαναι;— a priest Ne 12:19. name of two who took strange wives: Ezr 10:33. v 37.

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: Mattenai (3).

## 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;

[Nehemiah 12:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.19/#tree)

וּלְיוֹיָרִ֣יב מַתְּנַ֔י לִֽידַֽעְיָ֖ה עֻזִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and of Joiarib Mattenai of Jedaiah Uzzi

*JPS 1917:* and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4982.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4982/): 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).