מַתְּנַי

Strong’s Definition

Mattenai, the name of three Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

from H4976 (מַתָּן); liberal;

KJV Usage

Mattenai.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.a priest, son of joiarib, in the time of joiakim
• 2.an israelite who had and put away his foreign wife in the time of ezra
• 3.another israelite who had and put away his foreign wife in the time of ezra

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Mattᵉnay; Pronunciation: mat-ten-ah'ee