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מַתְּנַי

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Mattenai

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.33 § 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

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

מַתְּנַי proper name, masculine (abbreviated from foregoing); — ᵐ5 Μαθ(θ)ανια, Μαθθαναι; —

1. a priest Neh 12:19.
2. name of two who took strange wives:
  a. Ezra 10:33.
  b. vEzra 10:37.


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