Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4976
מַתָּן
mattanmat-tawn'
gift
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mattân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4976is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4976
a present
The King James renders it: gift, to give, reward.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mattan is rendered "gift". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:12Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
Genesis 34:12וּמַתָּ֔ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a gift1
- and a gift1
- gift1
- gift of1
- gift their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַתָּ֣ן2
- וּמַתָּ֔ן1
- מַתָּֽן׃1
- מַתָּנָ֗ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
Genesis
one use
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- וּמַתָּ֔ןumatanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a gift
Numbers
one use
And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.
- מַתָּנָ֗םmatanamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: gift their
Proverbs
three uses
A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men.
- מַתָּ֣ןmatannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gift of
Many seek the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend of the gift giver.
- מַתָּֽן׃matannoun · masculine singulartagged: gift
A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
- מַתָּ֣ןmatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a gift
The letters
Gematria 490· 1,140 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.