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mattᵊnay מַתְּנַי ‘Mattenai’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from mattān מַתָּן ‘gift’
Roots: מתתן

mattᵊnay pr n m pers
Mattenai = "gift of Jehovah"
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

Mentioned in Ezra 10:33, 10:37 Nehemiah 12:19

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