מַתְּנַיMattᵉnay
proper name, masculine: (abbreviated from foregoing)
Pronunciation: mat-ten-ah'ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4982
Meanings
1. a priest (Nehemiah 12:19)
2. name of two who took strange wives
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Ezra 10:33 From the family of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
- Ezra 10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu.
- Nehemiah 12:19 Mattenai was leader of the family of Joiarib. Uzzi was leader of the family of Jedaiah.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).