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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4979

מַתָּנָה

mattanahmat-taw-naw'

gift

17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mattânâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4979is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4979

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

mattanah is rendered "gift". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Genesis 25:6מַתָּנֹ֑ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's seventeen uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a gift4
  • gifts4
  • gifts your3
  • a bribe1
  • according to gift of1
  • and gifts1
  • by gifts their1
  • by gifts your1
  • gifts of1

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.

מַתָּתmattathgiftUses6
מַתָּןmattangiftUses5

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 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

  • בְּמַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם1
  • בְּמַתְּנוֹתָ֔ם1
  • וּמַתָּנ֖וֹת1
  • כְּמַתְּנַ֣ת1
  • מַתָּנָ֤ה1
  • מַתָּנָ֗ה1
  • מַתָּנָה֙1
  • מַתָּנָ֜ה1
  • מַתָּנָֽה׃1
  • מַ֭תָּנוֹת1
  • מַתָּנ֨וֹת1
  • מַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine plural4HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural3HNcfpc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfpc/Sp2mp
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc

Genesis

one use
  • But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

    Genesis 25:6

    • מַתָּנֹ֑תmatanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: gifts

Exodus

one use
  • And it will be worn on Aaron’s forehead, so that he may bear the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate with regard to all their holy gifts. It shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be acceptable before the LORD.

    Exodus 28:38

    • מַתְּנֹ֖תmatenotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gifts of

Leviticus

one use
  • These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.

    Leviticus 23:38

    • מַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗םmatenoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gifts your

Numbers

three uses
  • Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 18:6

    • מַתָּנָ֤הmatanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a gift
  • But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

    Numbers 18:7

    • מַתָּנָ֗הmatanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a gift
  • You must present the offering due the LORD from all the best of every gift, the holiest part of it.’

    Numbers 18:29

    • מַתְּנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םmatenoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gifts your

Deuteronomy

one use
  • Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

    Deuteronomy 16:17

    • כְּמַתְּנַ֣תkematenatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: according to gift of

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

    2 Chronicles 21:3

    • מַתָּנ֨וֹתmatanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: gifts

Esther

one use
  • as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

    Esther 9:22

    • וּמַתָּנ֖וֹתumatanotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and gifts

Psalms

one use
  • You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

    Psalms 68:18

    • מַ֭תָּנוֹתmatanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: gifts

Proverbs

one use
  • He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

    Proverbs 15:27

    • מַתָּנֹ֣תmatanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: gifts

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

    Ecclesiastes 7:7

    • מַתָּנָֽה׃matanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a bribe

Ezekiel

five uses
  • And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

    Ezekiel 20:26

    • בְּמַתְּנוֹתָ֔םbematenotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by gifts their
  • When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

    Ezekiel 20:31

    • מַתְּנֹֽתֵיכֶ֡םmatenoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gifts your
  • And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

    Ezekiel 20:39

    • בְּמַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖םbematenoteikhempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: by gifts your
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.

    Ezekiel 46:16

    • מַתָּנָה֙matanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a gift
  • But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

    Ezekiel 46:17

    • מַתָּנָ֜הmatanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a gift

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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