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Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4980

מַתָּנָה

Mattanahmat-taw-naw'

Mattanah

2 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 H4980is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4980

Mattanah, a place in the Desert

The King James renders it: Mattanah.

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 "Mattanah". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 21:18The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

Numbers 21:18מַתָּנָֽה׃

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

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Numbers.

The other 38 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

  • and from Mattanah1
  • Mattanah1

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.

מַתָּנָהmattanahgiftUses17
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 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • וּמִמַּתָּנָ֖ה1
  • מַתָּנָֽה׃1

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
  • proper noun (a name)1HNpl

Numbers

two uses
  • The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

    Numbers 21:18

    • מַתָּנָֽה׃matanahproper noun (a name)tagged: Mattanah
  • and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

    Numbers 21:19

    • וּמִמַּתָּנָ֖הumimatanahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and from Mattanah

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 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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