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# מַתִּתְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4993

**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/1502/4993/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתִּתְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4993/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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

[Ezra 10:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.43/#tree)

מִבְּנֵ֖י נְב֑וֹ יְעִיאֵ֤ל מַתִּתְיָה֙ זָבָ֣ד זְבִינָ֔א יַדַּ֥י וְיוֹאֵ֖ל בְּנָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* of the.sons of.Nebo Jeiel Mattithiah Zabad Zebina Jaddai and Joel Benaiah

*JPS 1917:* Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, and Joel, Benaiah.

[1 Chronicles 9:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.31/#tree)

וּמַתִּתְיָה֙ מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם ה֥וּא הַבְּכ֖וֹר לְשַׁלֻּ֣ם הַקָּרְחִ֑י בֶּאֱמוּנָ֕ה עַ֖ל מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַחֲבִתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Mattithiah one.of the Levites he \[was\].the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite in faithfulness \[was\].over the.work of the.flat.cakes

*JPS 1917:* And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were baked on griddles.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4993/): 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).