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# מַתַּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4991

**gift** — used 6 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

gift [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4991/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַתַּת²: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4991/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. gift;—abs. מַתָּ֑ת 1 K 13:7; cstr. מַתַּת Pr 25:14 + 4 times;—gift = reward 1 K 13:7; מַתַּת יָדוֹ the gift of his hand, i.e. of his power, what he is able to give Ez 46:5, 11 (cf. מַתָּנָה and יָד 2); מ׳ אֱלֹהִים Ec 3:13 the gift of God (of the enjoyment of man), so 5:18; מ׳ שָׁ֑קֶר Pr 25:14 a gift of falsity, i.e. one promised and not given.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] a gift (2); a gift (2); \[will be\] the gift (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.14/#tree)

נְשִׂיאִ֣ים וְ֭רוּחַ וְגֶ֣שֶׁם אָ֑יִן אִ֥ישׁ מִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ל בְּמַתַּת־שָֽׁקֶר׃

*Word for word:* clouds and wind and rain there.\[is\].not a.person \[who\].boasts in a.gift of.falsehood

*JPS 1917:* As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of a false gift.

[Ecclesiastes 3:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.13/#tree)

וְגַ֤ם כָּל־הָאָדָם֙ שֶׁיֹּאכַ֣ל וְשָׁתָ֔ה וְרָאָ֥ה ט֖וֹב בְּכָל־עֲמָל֑וֹ מַתַּ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and also every (the) person who he.will.eat and he.will.drink and he.will.see good in all toil his \[is\].a.gift of.God it

*JPS 1917:* But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4991.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4991/): 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).