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# מַתִּתְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Mattithiah** — used 4 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

Mattithiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b4_5bc_5ea_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתִּתְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b4_5bc_5ea_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. GrayProp. N. 294, No. 81);—𝔊 Ματταθιας, etc.;— a Levitical musician, מַתִּתְיָ֫הוּ 1 Ch 15:18, 21; 25:3, 21 = מַתִּתְיָה 16:5. מַתִּתְיָה, Levitical name 1 Ch 9:31. מ׳, attendant of Ezra (also Levite?) Ne 8:4. one of those who took strange wives Ezr 10:43.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 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: Mattithiah (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 25:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.25.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.25.21/#tree)

לְאַרְבָּעָ֤ה עָשָׂר֙ מַתִּתְיָ֔הוּ בָּנָ֥יו וְאֶחָ֖יו שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* for four- teen Mattithiah sons his and relatives his two.plus ten

*JPS 1917:* For the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

[1 Chronicles 15:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.21/#tree)

וּמַתִּתְיָ֣הוּ וֶאֱלִֽיפְלֵ֗הוּ וּמִקְנֵיָ֙הוּ֙ וְעֹבֵ֣ד אֱדֹ֔ם עֹבֵ֣ד אֱדֹ֔ם וִֽיעִיאֵ֖ל וַעֲזַזְיָ֑הוּ בְּכִנֹּר֥וֹת עַל־הַשְּׁמִינִ֖ית לְנַצֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-Edom Obed-Edom and Jeiel and Azaziah with harps on the sheminith to act.as.overseers

*JPS 1917:* and Mattithiah, and Eliphalehu, and Mikneiahu, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith, to lead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5ea_5b4_5bc_5ea_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_5b4_5bc_5ea_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).