matana · gift

What it means

matana (מַתָּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gift”.

Present.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Something one freely gives to another, like a father to his sons.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gifts ×11
• gift ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Genesis 25:6

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

• Exodus 28:38

  It shall be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate, in all their holy gifts; it shall be on his forehead continually, for their acceptance before YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:38

  besides the Sabbaths of YHWH, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to YHWH.

• Numbers 18:6

  And I, look, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel; to you they are a gift, given to YHWH, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 18:7

  But you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood in every matter of the altar and of what is inside the veil, and you shall serve. As a service of gift I give your priesthood, and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

• Numbers 18:29

  From all your gifts you shall set apart every contribution for YHWH, from all the best of it, the holy part of it from it.

• Deuteronomy 16:17

  each shall give according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim that he has given you.

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them many gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Joram, because he was the firstborn.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

• Psalms 68:18

  You went up on high; you took captives; you took gifts among human beings, and even the rebellious, for Yah Elohim to dwell there.

• Proverbs 15:27

  Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his household, but whoever hates gifts will live.

• Ecclesiastes 7:7

  For oppression makes a wise man mad, and a gift destroys the heart.

• Ezekiel 20:26

  and I defiled them through their gifts, in their making pass every firstborn of the womb, so that I might devastate them, so that they might know that I am YHWH.’

• Ezekiel 20:31

  And in presenting your gifts, in making your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I let myself be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live, declares Adonai YHWH, I will surely not let myself be consulted by you.

• Ezekiel 20:39

  And you, house of Israel, thus says Adonai YHWH: Go, serve, each his idols; but afterward you will surely listen to me, and my holy name you will no longer profane with your gifts and with your idols.

• Ezekiel 46:16

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: If the chief gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance; it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

• Ezekiel 46:17

  But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the chief; only his inheritance belongs to his sons; it shall be theirs.