Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H4978
מַתְּנָא
mattenamat-ten-aw'
gift
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mattᵉnâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4978is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4978
{a present; specifically (in a good sense), a sacrificial offering, (in a bad sense) a bribe}
The King James renders it: gift.
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
mattena is rendered "gift". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:6But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”
Daniel 2:6מַתְּנָ֤ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and gifts1
- gifts1
- gifts your1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַתְכֹנֶת | mathkoneth | tally | Uses5 |
| מַתְבֵּן | mathben | straw | Uses1 |
| מַתְּלָאָה | mattelaah | weariness | Usesnot recorded |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- וּמַתְּנָ֨ן1
- מַתְּנָ֤ן1
- מַתְּנָתָךְ֙1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1AC/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine plural1ANcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1ANcfpc/Sp2ms
Daniel
three uses
But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”
- מַתְּנָ֤ןmatenannoun · feminine pluraltagged: gifts
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
- וּמַתְּנָ֨ןumatenanconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and gifts
In response, Daniel said to the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the inscription for the king and interpret it for him.
- מַתְּנָתָךְ֙matenatokhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: gifts your
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.