King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4983
Transliteration: Mattanyah or Mattanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (mat-tan-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "gift of Yah", the last king of Judah, also a number of Isr
Meaning: Mattaniah -- "gift of Yah", the last king of Judah, also a number of Israelites
Word Summary
Mattanyah or Mattanyahu: "gift of Yah", the last king of Judah, also a number of Isr
Original Word: מַתַּנְיָהTransliteration: Mattanyah or Mattanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (mat-tan-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "gift of Yah", the last king of Judah, also a number of Isr
Meaning: Mattaniah -- "gift of Yah", the last king of Judah, also a number of Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Mattaniah Or Mattanyahuw {mat-tan-yaw'-hoo}; from mattan and Yahh; gift of Jah; Mattanjah, the name of ten Israelites -- Mattaniah.
see HEBREW mattan
see HEBREW Yahh
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4983. Mattanyah
or Mattanyahu מַתַּנְיָה מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּ, proper name, masculine (compare GrayProp. N. 294, No. 82); — ᵐ5 Μαθθας, Μανθανιας, Ματθανιας, etc.; —
1 מַתַּנְיָה, last king of Judah, name changed to Zedekiah 2 Kings 24:17.
2 מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּ, Levite name:
a. son of Heman 1 Chronicles 25:4.
b. Asaphite 1 Chronicles 25:16.
c. id., 2 Chronicles 29:13 (Hezekiah's time).
3 מַתַּנְיָה, Levite name:
a. Asaphite 1 Chronicles 9:15; Nehemiah 11:17, 22; 12:8, 35, perhaps = 2b, c (but much confusion and uncertainty; e.g. ׳מ is of Hezekiah's time 2 Chronicles 29:13, and 4th Generation before Nehemiah, Nehemiah 11:12; 12:35; while contemporary of Zerubbabel 12:8 and of Nehemiah 11:17).
b. other Levites: (1) 2 Chronicles 20:14, (2) Nehemiah 12:25, (3) 13:13.
4 מַתַּנְיָה, name of several who took strange wives:
a. Ezra 10:26.
b. Ezra 10:27.
c. Ezra 10:30.
d. Ezra 10:37.